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Re: English notation

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, June 30, 2001, 12:39
At 02:32 2001-06-30 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:

 >In _phonemic_ terms,
it seems almost a toss-up whether to assign "sear" etc. to tense /iy/ or lax
/i/,

Except that it might be useful to distinguish _sir_ "sear" from _siyr_
"seer" in some kind of reformed spelling.  In my Inglix scheme I'm afraid
they'll have to be _sér_ vs. _séer_.


/BP 8^)>
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