From: "E. Notagain" <ecg321@...>
Subject: Yet Another Dumb IPA Question
> How is CH represented? (like CHeese, CHips, CHicken)
> It sounds similar to /S/, but I just can't seem to find a symbol.
> Is it two seprate letters or what?
It's two separate sounds. /tS/ Affricates (like this) are stops followed
by homorganic (at the same place) fricatives.
> --Erin Notagain--
>
> Cyrillic Is Easier Than IPA.
Only if the sound you want is used in Cyrillic. And using Cyrillic misleads
you to thinking that CH is a single sound. Though I've met people who
thought that SH was two separate sounds, as it's written with two letters.
There are plenty of languages where Cyrillic would fail. Try Mandarin or
Zulu in such a system.