Re: A question on vowel orthography

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tim May wrote:

> In ASCII, though, I'm not sure what to do with /o/ and /Q/.  The rest
> of the vowels have pretty obvious latin equivalents, except /@/, which
> I'll probably leave as @.  /o/ and /Q/ are both "o" in my experience,
> though (certainly in English).  So I could use a plain "o" for one,
> and with a diacritic for the other.  But which way round would be
> best, and what diacritic, I don't know.
I suggest using "o" for /o/, "a" for /Q/, and "ä" (a with umlaut) for /a/,
but, then again, I'm Scandinavian. :)

-arj