words starting with "ex"

[Mircea Sauciuc]

Frankly, the reason no one is ³giving their opinion² is because you have
zero methodology to your ³research² (if we can call it that) and your
controls are non-existent.  I¹m not trying to attack you, but as it has been
mentioned here in the past, nobody takes you seriously because of your
³research² flaws and your serious lack of linguistic knowledge.  According
to what you¹ve written, you are using m-w.com pronunciation as your method
of data collection.  Several messages ago, you claimed you go out into the
field and collect data.  If so, why restrict yourself to m-w.com
pronunciation?  Seriously, Tom, I think you say these things on this forum
in order to get people worked up.  Personally, I don¹t think it¹s possible
that you actually believe half of the things you say.

And you are clearly unaware of any psycholinguistic research that states (in
a nutshell) that you don¹t always hear what you hear.  So I wouldn¹t be
preaching ³I go by what my EAR HEARS...²  That¹s nice for a child to say who
doesn¹t know better, but from a grown man who claims he does research is
utterly unacceptable.


On 7/27/07 4:02 PM, "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> Because I've been writing a pronunciation guide for English based on the
> spoken words in m-w.com and American Heritage "talking" dictionaries, I take
> the perspective of "how does this word sound" whether or not it correlates
> to the written phonetics in those editions.
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> For many of the words beginning with "ex" the phonetics written in m-w.com
> prescribes "ix".  The speakers are in lock step with this and say "ix".  I
> think that if every one of them were phonetically written "ex" and spoken
> "ex" no one would have any heartburn with that. But "ix" just does not sit
> right with me as descriptive of an American norm.  (Not to put down m-w.com
> which is good job and great resource.)
> 
> Basically no one has given their opinion on this but me as yet.
> 
> 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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