IPA symbols do not work here

[Tom Zurinskas]

IPA symbols do not work.  But there is no problem with truespel phonetic symbols, which are only letters of the alphabet.

See "merry Christmas and happy new year" in 50 languages done by encoding into truespel and then reading the phonetics http://justpaste.it/50christmaslangs



Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk




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> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster: W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Boehner
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> Second test of Unicode IPA symbols in ADS-L. (Poster message will show
> gibberish.)
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> Awright, LH, now that Boehner is once again Speaker of the House (thus
> retroactively unstaining my escutcheon), let us once more run the onomastic
> gauntlet: How likely is it for =C3=B6/oe to be pronounced as [ei] rather th=
> an
> [ou] in the Americanization of German surnames?
>
> (a) =C3=B6/oe > [ei]: Boehner:
>
> (1) John Andrew Boehner ['bein=C9=9A]. Wikipedia note: "Boehner's biography=
> at
> House.gov recommends the pronunciation BAY-ner." Thus far, it appears that
> the rendering of =C3=B6/oe > [ei] in Boehner is an hapax. He doesn't want t=
> o be
> called ['boun=C9=9A] (as WB insists), but is too proud to change the spelli=
> ng.
>
> (1=C2=BC) Lou Gehrig ['g=C9=9B=C9=B9=C9=AA=C9=A1] < Goehrig.
>
> (1=C2=BD) Goethe ['g=C9=9At=C9=99].
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> (1=C2=BE) E.F.K. (Konrad) Koerner ['k=CA=B0=C9=9An=C9=9A].
>
> (b) *=C3=B6*/*oe* > [ou]: Boeing, Boehm, Roebling, Loew, Gobel, Hollerith:
>
> (1) William Boeing ['bouwi=C5=8B] < Wilhelm B=C3=B6ing.
>
> (2) Ken Boehm [boum] (NLRC chairman), CNN news reader 29 Dec 2012].
>
> (3) John Augustus Roebling ['=C9=B9oubli=C5=8B] (n=C3=A9 Johann August R=C3=
> =B6bling, engineer).
>
> (4) Marcus Loew [lou] < L=C3=B6we (cf. the MGM lion).
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> (5) "Lonesome George" Gobel ['goub=C9=AB] (n=C3=A9 George Leslie Goebel).
> (6) Herman Hollerith < Hoellerith.
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