Re: Idea for a new ASCII-IPA scheme

Nik Taylor wrote:

> { or & are both just arbitrary replacements, with & being
> just slightly better, since it phonetically reminds the reader of ash.
"&" doesn't seem so arbitrary to me.  In the font I'm using
(MS Courier New), the lower left loop looks like a squeezed
"a" (the script kind, with a single bowl), and the rest looks like
a defective epsilon.  Historically, of course, "&" is a ligature
for "et", and when handwriting I make it as a large epsilon with
a superimposed backslash (\).

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)