awe-dropping at upodn.com

[Tom Zurinskas]

Upodn.com has a nice phonetic converter for IPA.  I put in the following "awe" words:

cost lost boss moss awe awesome awkward law lawn dawn shawn applause clause taught laundry launch caught pawn jaw pause talk walk chalk

and got the following phonetic conversion

kɑst lɒst bɒs mɒs ɑ ɑsəm ɑkwərd lɑ lɒn dɒn ʃɒn əplɒz klɒz tɒt lɒndri lɒntʃ kɑt pɒn dʒɒ pɒz tɒk wɑk tʃɑk

Which down't appear correctly as paste here so I'll give it in truespel
~~Kaast laust baus maus aa aasum aakwerd laa laun daun shaun applaus klaus taut laundree launch kaat paun jau paus tauk waak chaak~~

Incredibly it says that "ah" and "awe" are both pronounced "ah".  Not right.

My take is that because there is no useful phonetic notation for English, pronunciation is left to vary rather than be nailed down as a standard pronunciation.




Tom Zurinskas, from Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 8.
Free English-based phonetic converter, URL and text , at truespel.com












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> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:03:10 -0500
> From: ronbutters at AOL.COM
> Subject: research?
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Ronald Butters
> Subject: research?
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> In my world, performing a Google search for a word and then looking up the word in several a dictionaries and reporting on the instances that support one's thesis is still "research," even if it is only very simple research. Why the nasty quibble about words?
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> Maybe "research" should be defined in dictionaries as "performing a Google search for a word and then looking up the word in several a dictionaries and reporting on the instances that support one's thesis" so that I can use it to describe that process?
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> On Feb 6, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Paul Frank wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM, wrote:
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> >> Thanks to Paul for doing this research.
> >>
> >> A separate entry for "rugged weather" still seems like overkill to me. Anyone could figure out the meaning of "rugged weather" from the other definition in the same way that one could figure out "rugged toilet training" or "rugged oral exam". But I bow to the professional opinion of AMERICAN HERITAGE--if this isn't something they put in to see if other dictionary makers plagiarized their triviality.
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> >> If they took this out, they would have room for "snood"!
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> >
> > I didn't do any research. I cut and pasted.
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