Re: CHAT: IPA Question

E. Notagain <ecg321 at AOL.COM> wrote:

>I can't seem to find a symbol for the "ay" sound (ie: lAte, wAIt, irrAte).
>I've gone through the IPA sound chart
>at "http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/". Is there something I'm missing?
>
That's a diphthong; it's really two sounds together. I've seen it
represented as [ei] or [eI]. I find the first is closer to the way I say it.

M

P.S. I understand that vowels vary with the different English accents, and
your pronunciation of "ay" may indeed be [eI]. No need to inform me of this.

There, that ought to kill the English pronunciation thread before it starts.