Re: 1. YAESR
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 18, 2005, 22:50 |
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Joe wrote at 2005-04-18 23:00:05 (+0100)
> Well, Welsh and English have a pleasantly similar phonology, with the
> odd exception (Welsh doesn't have [tS] or [dZ], or [z], English doesn't
> have [K] or [r_h], or [x] natively). I spelt [tS] and [dZ] as well as I
> could, within the Welsh orthography (I didn't make it up, of course.
> See Welsh 'jwg'(jug) and 'garej'(garage), as well as 'Tsieina'(China)).
> I had some trouble with final [tS], however. 'Tsh' seemed the best I
> could do, in the circumstances. And <z> is a letter so alien to Welsh
> that I decided to avoid it. (It's almost non-phonemic in English
> anyway).
How is /z/ almost non-phonemic in Engish? There are hundreds of
minimal pairs in RP.
I like the scheme, though.
(You pronounce "one" [wQn]?)
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