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Re: Country names

From:David Barrow <davidab@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 6:55
Joe wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carlos Thompson" <chlewey@...> > To: <CONLANG@...> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 10:32 PM > Subject: Re: Country names > > > Tristan McLeay wrote: > > > > > > > Robert B Wilson wrote: > > > > > > >>We here say /@stSr\&iL@/ where /L/=[j], [lj] or [li]. > > > >> > > > > > > > >you say 'istrailyih'? :P > > > > > > > No, everyone else can't say Australia properly, and it has a very > > > obvious pronunciation from its spelling :P > > > > Of course: [aws"t4alja]. Obvious, not? > > > > Well, in my Ideolectical Chibchombian English it would become > > [Os`"t`r`ejlj@], or something like that. Aussie/Ozzie would be ["OzI]. > > > > (not sure if that [t`r`] is actually a slightly palatized retroflex trill) > > > > Of course, I am not a native English Speaker. > > > > -- Carlos Th > > In RP it would be about the same as you pronounce it, but without the > retroflexes. [Ostrejlij@]
[Qstreili@] with au as the o in lost not as the au in cause say all my dictionaries David Barrow

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