On 5/10/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> > Any chance he was using IPA values? Did the IPA even exist in 1927?
> > :)
>
> Certainly it did! The International Phonetic Association was founded in
> 1886, and the first official version of IPA was issued in 1888.
Ah! I knew the IPAssociation was from late 19th cent, but I thought
the IPAlphabet was a 20th-century development...
> But Esperanto and Ido were also around well before 1927; my _guess_ is that |c| = [ts] and |j| =
> [Z], and that |x| is plain ol' [ks] - but 'twould be interesting to see a copy of
> his 1927 publication.
Ah! The "read as Ido" interpretation hadn't occurred to me. That
certainly removes the ambiguities..
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>