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guildyank wrote: > > I think the alphabet looks fine as you've laid it out there, except I > thought we were leaning toward 'c' for /tS/. > > I would be uncomfortable doing as Mike muses -- losing the > distinction between /Z/ and /dZ/ -- probably because my main foreign > language is French, in which /Z/ is an extremely common phoneme > (and /tS/ hardly exists at all). To me /Z/ is fundamental. Just MHO. Hmpf! Buncha foreigners! Talk funny! > Point of interest: in Quebecois, /dz/ is a commonly-used alternative > to /d/, generally preceding the front vowels /u/ and /i/. "Le car du > pompier" is pronounced as "Le car dzu pompier". > > (Off topic: Mike, I visited most of your web site. Very > good...focused on content over flash. An interesting life you've led > and lead!) [...] Ha! It only looks that way from the outside. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _______________________________________________________ "When they wired us humans up, they really should have labeled the wires--don't you think?" -- Ed