Re: English notation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 12:39 |
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At 11:51 2001-06-30 +1000, tristan alexander mcleay wrote:
>i'v only ever heard [iN] once, and that was on some
>recording. And the [i] was as short as an [I], but other /i/s where
>lengthened too, if that's relevant.
Probably very relevant. Tensing of vowels beore [N] is well known from
other languages as well. It is also the reason for the most long-standing
spelling debate in Icelandic: _munkur_ is pronounced as if it was spelled
_múnkur_, and the same for all other vowels before _nk_ and _ng_. Some
people use a reformed spelling, and there are people who are really pissed
off at each other...
BTW oughtn't a person with your name have a Scots accent? ;-)
/BP 8^)>
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