Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 18:36 |
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:39:52PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
[snip]
> As I posted a while back, sung English has a strange phonology that
> nobody would ever speak: monosyllabic "heaven", [glor\jos] for
> "glorious", etc.
[snip]
OK, so heav'n is common when you're trying to squeeze more words into the
meter. (I've probably even done it myself, before.) But [glor\jos] just
sounds pretentious to me.
T
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