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>>> Yes. So I want to change that to 'kway'. >> >> I actually much preferred "kwaj", so y can be used as the schwa. > > I'd actually forgotten that. Let me think about it. I like j as [dZ] or [Z] and y as [j] (I hope that's the correct ascii ipa), but a schwa would be preferable (I think?), so something has to be done. ...Last night I stumbed upon a page describing the scripts used by Azeri (i.e. the Turkish-like language of Azerbaijan). They now again use the latin alphabet (first it was arabic, then latin, then cyrillic, now back to latin), but to fit their sounds better, the upside-down--lower-case--e schwa character was added. It seems no other language uses it, so they're in trouble when it comes to finding typewriters, but there are some Azeri fonts and I personally think it looks rather nice, if strange (see the left side of this page <http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_latin/latin_choice.html>). A bizarre solution, I admit, but hopefully it will at least make you think. -- Alexander Browne | alexbrowne@hidden.email Saint Paul, Minn., U.S.