Re: Country names

On Sun, 11 May 2003 23:36:45 -0400 Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
writes:
> On Sun, 11 May 2003, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> >  also, shouldn't it be [Asi], since it's from [AstSr\&l_jV] with
> > [As]-?
>
> You pronounce it funny ( :P ). Or else that's a poor approximation
> of
> ours.  We here say /@stSr\&iL@/ where /L/=[j], [lj] or [li]. When
you say 'istrailyih'? :P

> the
> first syllable is pronounced with its full value, it's /O/, the
> short
> sound of 'hot'. This is part of the rule o: > O before st, r\, and
> in some
> other words at random (e.g. caustic /kOstik/, Austria /OstSri@/,
> also
> auction /OkS@n/). We still distinguish between /O/ and /o:/, but
> some
> redundencies are no longer.
you don't distinguish 'o' and 'au'? i have 'o' [O] and 'au' [A]...
"costic? what's that mean?" :P

> Then, there's a rule that voices /s/ and /f/ when making
> colloquialised
> forms that take the first syllable of a word, stress it, voice any
> final
> /s/ or /f/, then add -i, -8u or -@.
does it voice /T/ and /S/ too?  if not, why only /s/ and /f/?

> I meant use the simplest pronunciation for your dialect of English.
> If you
> showed it to a 6-year-old, how would they expect to pronounce it?
[mAzi] or [mOzi] (depending on the six year old, [mOzi] would be more
common, but [mAzi] would be more common among 6-year-olds), but not all
dialects are the same, some people would even pronounce 'mozzie' with
[s]...

> Tristan                  <kesuari@...>
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