Paisley's vowels

[Alice Faber]

sagehen wrote:
>> 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, OrthoÎpist, and Philological Busybody
>  ~~~~~~~~~~
> There goes life imitating art again.  Wish I'd thought of "tetraphthong"
> (Gr +Gr, instead of Lat+Gr).

But that would preclude references to the state of Quadraphthongia.
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