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Re: English notation

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, June 30, 2001, 12:39
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^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angelmiel \ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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