Paisley's vowels

[Wilson Gray]

Oh. Well, then, that's okay.  I thought that you had in mind, "Quadrophenia."

-Wilson

On 5/11/07, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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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