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Re: English notation

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Monday, July 2, 2001, 14:01
BP
> 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/,
tho usefully the six lax vowels can be mapped to the six vowels that precede nononset R. tour = twr pore = por pair = per fir = fur fear = fir far = far + tire = fayr tower = tawr
> 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_.
sear = sir seer [if = see + er] = siyr --And.