Gone feeshin'

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>... I can't think of an appropriate ASCII IPA symbol for
>that just now, but I'm referring to the IPA inverted-m.

Kirshenbaum gives

u-

for the 'turned-m' or unrounded 'u' in ASCII IPA:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html

Looks awkward to me. There's a more forward version (= 'barred-i'):

i"

Do we really need such Stalinist or Ceausescuesque vowels contaminating our
language?? (^_^)

-- Doug Wilson