Re: Ladefoged

I wrote:

>John Cowan writes:
>
>>taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>>
>>>  (Peter Ladefoged for the phonetic side of things,
>>> of course).
>>
>>His "Outline of Phonetics" has been described (on sci.lang,
>>I think) as "answering every possible question about phonetics,
>>except how to pronounce 'Ladefoged'".
>>
>>Eventually the answer was tracked down: although it's a
>>Danish name, he pronounces it in his "debased RP" (self-description)
>>as ['l&d@fowg@d].
>
>Its virtually impossible for people who are not Danes
>to pronounce that name correctly in the first place. I
>pronounce it as ['lED=fo^D=], where [D=] is a syllabic
>eth and [o^] is a raised [o].
Correction! The both [D=]s are also strongly velarized.

-kristian- 8)