words starting with "ex"

[Amy West]

You misunderstand me:

What I want to say in a very direct way is this: leave M-W out of it,
go out and collect your own data in the wild, and study the
linguistic field of phonology/phonetics. Take Laurence Urdang's
advice.

---Amy West

>Date:    Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:32:37 +0000
>From:    Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: words starting with "ex"
>
>Thanks Amy,
>
>I really should say that the m-w.com site is truly a marvelous free resource
>and commend Marriam-Webster and all that worked on it for a fine job.
>Hearing the spoken word actually revolutionizes the dictionary.  Sound files
>must be used in this forum as well.  This is a wonderful thing they did.
>
>Many of the issues I address I believe are due to changing pronunciation
>over time that legacy phonetic spelling hasn't kept up with, or due to mixed
>accents.  I certainly never intimated that the pronunciation were "from the
>wild."
>
>I agree that phonetic spelling is needlessly cryptic and should be redone in
>an English friendly way so it's more accessible, especially for instructing
>in reading and English pronunciation.  That's the thrust of truespel.
>
>What you seem to have said below is that my reliance on m-w.com as a
>pronunciation guide for typical USA accent is a good one because m-w.com is
>ably quality controlled, with the proviso that regional accents will vary.
>I agree with you.
>
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>See truespel.com - and the 4  truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at
>authorhouse.com.

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