Re: English notation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 9:42 |
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At 06:29 2001-07-03 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>Indeed, the two are not by any means homophones in all dialects.
>Pronunciations like [fow@(r)] = 'four' are not uncommon. Howver, I'm
>fairly certain that _score_ always rhymes with _four_ in all dialects, even
>tho it doesn't always rhyme with _for_. Therefore, while there is indeed
>a good case for spelling _four_ differently from _for_, the case for _får_
>"four" and _skor_ "score" is less well founded, methinks.
Indeed. The solution would be to spell _fór, skór_ in these cases. Anyhow
it ought to be optional, since the vast majority of English speakers don't
have [fowr] or [for] distinct from [fOr] -- in terms of Wells' standard
lexial sets most speakers have NORTH-FORCE merger. In my system the
differentiation should perhaps rather be done by abbreviating the
preposition "for" to _f_, not least since it also has a weak form [f@(r)].
só it'z _fór_ or _for_ f "4" and _f_ f þ prepozixn! ;-)
/BP 8^)>
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