Having just finished listening to some free audio books where the readers played fast and loose with pronunciation, I've come to the conclusion that diacriticals in English would be a good thing! More than just helpful with words like resume and résumé.
Mark On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Peter Becker <[email protected]>wrote: > > Not that I claim to really understand it, but here's a page with a sample: > > > > http://www.fun-with-english.co.uk/2005/03/importance-of-correct-pronunciation.html > > Wikipedia claims at least 6 for US English and 10+ for British English: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(combination)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_%28combination%29> > > Google finds much more on the topic: > > http://www.google.com.au/search?q=pronunciation+ough > > It's up to you to consider it fun or scary :-) > > Peter > > > PS: why is it "to pronounce something" but "pronunciation"? Is that just > some introduction to the "language fun"? ;-) > PPS: yes, maybe I am taking this too serious :-) But we care a lot about > programming languages as our tools, and in many ways the natural > language used seems a more important choice, a choice which we > unfortunately don't have at the moment. > > > Mwanji Ezana wrote: > >> I still > >> haven't found a definite answer on the number of pronunciations for > >> "ough". Seven seems quite plausible > >> > > > > I can think of 3: > > cough > > hiccough > > Middlesborough > > > > What are the others? > > > > Mwanji > > > > > > > > > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
