Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> I found for ex a "half closed round vowel" against a
> "half open round vowel" (???). (I don't deny that a
> difference may exist, although I cannot guess it).
Why, that is precisely the definition (assuming your source
is speaking of front vowels) between /2/ and /9/; if of
back vowels, between /o/ and /O/.

> BTW, I may have bad eyes, but I couldn't find any
> differentiation between English and French 'p' (like
> in 'pound' # 'pondre') or 't' (like in 'to' # 'tout')
> for ex.
That distinction is expressed in IPA by the small raised
h diacritic, which in CXS is spelled "_h".

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