Co ördinated

[Tom Zurinskas]

My take is that the use of special symbols has killed phonetics in USA.  No one teaches phonetics in k-12 in a way that involves "writing" phonetically.  And there's no need for this complication if a simple English based phonetics like truespel phonetics is used.  That's why truespel phonetics was created.  It's the way to go for teaching phonetics.  It's getting some traction in ESL.

At thefreedictionary.com I hear "diearesis" pronounced ~die'urreesis (die-uh-REE-sis) as the US version.  The UK version and the speaker icon version are ~die"airisis (die-AIR-ih-sis)  I would have said the USA version myself.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:31:10 -0400
> From: bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Coördinated
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> Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > I found it funny that, in a recent issue of the New Yorker, they used the
> > word "coördinated", with the umlaut on the second letter "o", several times.
> >
> > The first two usages were in an article on Karl May, who wrote fiction
> > about the American West. I thought this was some kind of editorial joke
> > until I found the word again in an article on Camus.
>
> The diaeresis has long been part of New Yorker style, and they're sticking to
> it.
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> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis.html
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> --bgz
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