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--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email> wrote: > Wrt. /ri:nen@/, I'd be surprised about the inner > /e/. German's native > Germanic words contain only very few if any > unstressed /e/. Usually, > stems is monosyllabic now, with occasional schwas > added at the end. > So /ri:n@/ sounds much more like it to me. OTOH, I > don't know your > GMP nor your design goals of the GMP, so I cannot > really argue. No, I concur. It could only survive if the stress was irregular, on the middle syllable, so /r@ne:n@/ or r/r@na:n@/ - can't remebber what happens to CL <�> off the top of my head. But who would want to live in a country that rhymed with "banana"?