Well, I don't know IPA, but could you describe
what you mean by [3] by analogy with other
standard English words. Otherwise I can't tell
what you're suggesting.
John
At 12:38 PM -0700 4/30/07, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:24 PM, John Howell wrote:
Madeleine Marshall informs, "Never sing "r"
before a consonant. (p. 9) So, she would have
the singers pronounce bird as" b[3]d." I.e.,
she would maintain that the ONLY vowel in said
example is [3], and that the "r" sound does not
exist. This approach has worked fine with all
my choirs.
Dean
On the contrary, "r" IS a vowel, the ONLY vowel
in "girl," "bird," or "heard." (That is to
say, since it's easy to get tangled up in
semantics, it is a phonated sound that can be
sustained.) The written vowels are effectively
mute. It is a BETTER vowel (better sound
quality) if it is formed by keeping the tongue
low in the mouth and lifting the two outside
edges up to touch the upper teeth, than if it
is formed by raising the middle of the tongue
to the soft palate, but it functions as a
vowel, and if it quacks like a duck, etc., etc.
John
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing
bête noire on a quotidian basis, is the cereal
box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert
Tab Here ." Yeah, right! In attempting to
accomplish the first direction, not only the
tab but also the slit intended to accept the
aforementioned protuberance have both been
irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified
by the misbehavior of the recalcitrant inner
bag, which can not be unsealed sans mangling
it, and hence, will not disperse its contents
without exiting the box itself. All I wanted
was a bowl of cereal.
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