Re: 1. YAESR

Tim May wrote:

>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.
>
>
Yes?  Well, I couldn't think of any at the time, though now I can think
of bass /bEjs/ and baize /bEjz/.  But I also have a length distinction -
so the latter is more like [bE:iz].

Either way, I suspect you could spell them, in that case, as 'beiss' and
'beis', respectively - maybe.

>I like the scheme, though.
>
>(You pronounce "one" [wQn]?)
>
>
>
Yes - is that unusual?  It's certainly the norm in this area (south
Oxfordshire).

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