Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

From: "David Barrow" <davidab@...>
Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)


> I meant in the spelling. For example above you have [w@zn] as wuzzen
whereas
> with n= dj@ you have india; final |en| versus initial |in| why have
different
> spellings?
Ah, now I understand.  Final [n=] is common enough that I have several
options in spelling it.  "button", "mitten", and "Latin" are all -[?n]
words, so |on|, |en|, and |in| could be ways to spell final [n=].  Initial
[n=] just doesn't happen, so spelling it is more of a problem.

> [dj] ?
As I mentioned earlier, we don't want something that would phonemically be
/dj/, as that is realized as [dZj] in my accent.

> Is there no word in in your accent where [A] has |a| in the spelling?
Nothing comes to mind, but I'll think about it.