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Re: Country names

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 15:45
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Country names


> Joe wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...> > >To: <CONLANG@...> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:11 AM > >Subject: Re: Country names > > > > > > > > > >>>No, everyone else can't say Australia properly, and it has a very > >>>obvious pronunciation from its spelling :P > >>> > >>> > >>Obvious? In English? A language where one can findl orthography to make > >>_ghoti_ be pronounced [fIS]? :P > >> > There are rules to the English orthography. Many words can have an > obvious pronunciation. Just because the rules are often complex and some > more common words have exceptional spellings doesn't mean that there > aren't rules... > > >Only we can't. > > > I agree, but your explanations aren't perfect. > > > |gh| is a diagraph found only at the end of syllables, for a > >start. > > > ghost
Oh yes...well, it adds to my point, really, because the |gh| would be pronounced [g], definitely not [f].
> >And is only [f] in the tesseragraphs(is that right?) |augh|[&f] > > > unless you speak properly, when it's [a:f] :P
Odd, I don't acutally say [&f], I say [A:f]
> > and > >|ough| [Qf], and [Vf]. |o| is only pronounced [I] in |women], and |ti|
is,
> >again, only prounounced [S] in the tesseragraph |tion|[S@n]. > > > > > More generally than that, e.g. ratio. It does need a vowel after it,
though.
>
Ah, you're correct.