[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Peter Kirk]

On 12/04/2004 17:06, Ron Moe wrote:

> ...
> I still want to know what people have done with this sort of problem
> in their dictionaries. Do you use a pronunciation guide that is close
> to phonemic? Or do you use a pronunciation guide that is closer to
> IPA? What do you do when orthographic, phonemic, and phonetic are
> mismatched:
>
> burnable /b*rn*b*l(?)/ ['bRn*bL] adj....
>
> interesting /'In.tR.Es.tIN/ ['In.tR.Es.tIN, 'In.tr*s.tIN,
> 'I.nR.Es.tIN] adj....
>
> Or do you duck the problem and leave it for the phonology statement?  :)
>
> Ron Moe
>
Or is your orthography sufficiently phonemic that there is no need for a
separate pronunciation guide? I would expect that to be true of most
languages recently reduced to writing, except perhaps that tone and/or
stress might need to be marked in the dictionary when not normally in
the orthography.

--
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



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