Re: English notation

Eric Christopherson wrote:

 >On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:05:48AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
 >
 >>Raymond Brown scripsit:
 >>
 >>>The second syllable of the following words are all pronounced differently
 >>>in most (all?) varieties of English: apparent, deterrent, concurrent.
 >>>
 >>I have [&] in the first and a syllabic rhotic in the last two, which are
 >>perfect rhymes for me.  Lots of my fellow-countrymen use [ej] in the
 >>first, though.
 >>
 >>When reading "C" language out loud, I seem to be unusual for saying
 >>[tSAR] rather than [kejR] for "char".
 >>
 >
 >Heh. I alternate between the two; both sound equally stupid to me. Now don't
 >get me started on ioctl()!
 >
I say /kA:/, so it sounds like 'car'. I never saw any other way. and
/aij@u%si:ti:"jel/ is the only way I'd ever say ioctl().

Tristan