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Ray Bergmann wrote: > By the way, I never did find out why "c" = [tsh] has apparently > been unanimously rejected!!?? The sound can be better written 'tx'. With c=[tsh], either 'tx' would have to be illegal or there would be two ways to write the sound. [zh] or French j (I really should learn ASCII IPA) is written 'j' and [dzh] is 'dj', so the pattern is already there. Although I can understand Ray's ideas, I think that they change too much and then still leave us with the same problem. And I *love* q = [ng]. A click would be ok, but wierd yes, so it would be best kept rare. baCH sound, isn't my favorite, but I could live with it. I like /T/ (in general), but I agree that is would make it difficult for many, and 'c' is a bit odd for that sound. My new idea is this: C wouldn't be pronounced; it'ld be there to allow words to start with vowels and still fit the rules. If someone wrote something with no spaces, I could still find what morphemes are where. The only real problem I can see is that voice-recognition software might get confused, so for this they could be limited to foreign names/place names. With the context clues, this works seems to work to me. -- Alexander Browne | ab@hidden.email Saint Paul, Minn., U.S. -- Alexander Browne | alexbrowne@hidden.email Saint Paul, Minn., U.S.