Paisley's vowels

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri May 11 13:29:21 UTC 2007


The Sage Hen writes:
>>>>
Now that the unpleasant Ian Paisley is back on stage, we'll probably be
getting clips of his speech from time to time.  I'm curious   to know how a
word like "now" as spoken by him would be represented in IPS.  It seems to
be a at least a tri- if not quadri -phthong. It makes me think of an
opal....it has so many sound elements in it.
<<<<

And I thought I was just writing fantasy when I depicted "Dr. Whom" as 
writing a paper titled "Sigmoid-F2 Tetraphthongs in Ailurin"!

-- Dr. Whom
   Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]




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