Re: Country names

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Barrow" <davidab@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Country names


> 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
>
I'm afraid I can't tell any difference between the two, when short.

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