Re: English notation
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 6:42 |
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Christian Thalmann wrote:
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> > Raymond Brown wrote:
> >
> >>æ = /E/ in _æni_, /{/ in _ænd_ and _dhæt_.
> >>
> >>The phoneme /E/ is spelled {æ} in _æni_, but as {e} in _dhem_.
> > Isn't [E] just a phonetic realization of the phoneme /æ/ in this context?
>
>
> Plainly no: "any" is /Eni/ and "Annie" is /&ni/. "Any" is now an
> irregular spelling.
I've heard people pronounce <any> as /"{ni/, at least when really
emphasizing it. I've probably done it myself at times. The same goes for
<many>, <catch>, etc.
--
Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^
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