LBS

[Tom Zurinskas]

Do we not say a wee bit of a "d" in "pounds"?  In truespel ~poundz.

Note the letter string "au" is not used (in the top 5k most popular words) to spell the ~ou sound (as in "out") in English.  The only good choice for an English based phonetic is ~ou.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
The FREE English-based phonetic converters, URL and text , are at truespel.com




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> At least OBGYN (pronounced as letters) is shorter than something even more
> unwieldy.
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> But what's shorter than /paunz/?
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> Too surreal?: they don't know that "lbs." really means pounds. They think
> it abbreviates something that is the practical equivalent of pounds, but not
> pounds themselves. Like "legal burden sizes" or something.
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> JL
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> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, James Harbeck wrote:
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> > >We recently discussed the unusual use of "tornado" in automated National
> > >Weather Service Warnings.
> > >In a local Amber Alert this week, the abducted girl was described as
> > >weighing "115 /el bi es/", while her abductor weighed "184 /el bi es/."
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> > >What's wrong with /paunz/? What's with these people?
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> > That's even worse than "oh bee gee why en" for OBGYN, which is short
> > for "obstetrician-gyncologist" and is sensibly (but seemingly less
> > often) said /AbgaIn/ (forgive me if I'm using the wrong character for
> > the cursive small a here).
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> > James Harbeck.
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