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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 960976" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>Brilliant, I love linguistics and prob taught English as a foreign language for 4 years, this is right up my street.</p><p></p><p>Assume using the English phonemic alphabet is just going to confuse people more (plus might not cover the Welsh/Gaelic sounds), so done with Latin alphabet as much as possible:</p><p></p><p>1. froom</p><p>2. Bal-uh-[X]OO-lish</p><p>3. GON-stuh</p><p>4. oh-MA[X]</p><p>5. WUUHD-zwuh-thee</p><p>6. BYOO-lee</p><p>7. BISS-tuh</p><p>8. in-iz-I-buhl</p><p>9. RASH-uhm</p><p>10. CAH-muh (like "Karma")</p><p></p><p>[X] = Scottish ch, like "loch"</p><p>I've used "uh" to signify a shwa*, which is that little half-syllable generic vowel sound that is pervasive in everyday spoken English, like at the end of "teacher".</p><p>Capitals for primary stresses syllable</p><p></p><p>To be honest the whole relationship between letter and sound is so messed up in English that it is nigh on impossible to convey phonetic sounds unambiguously (hence why the phonemic alphabet is even a thing....). Hope this is fairly clear though.</p><p></p><p>*look it up if you're interested in English linguistics, it's weirdly fascinating..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 960976, member: 71826"] Brilliant, I love linguistics and prob taught English as a foreign language for 4 years, this is right up my street. Assume using the English phonemic alphabet is just going to confuse people more (plus might not cover the Welsh/Gaelic sounds), so done with Latin alphabet as much as possible: 1. froom 2. Bal-uh-[X]OO-lish 3. GON-stuh 4. oh-MA[X] 5. WUUHD-zwuh-thee 6. BYOO-lee 7. BISS-tuh 8. in-iz-I-buhl 9. RASH-uhm 10. CAH-muh (like “Karma”) [X] = Scottish ch, like “loch” I’ve used “uh” to signify a shwa*, which is that little half-syllable generic vowel sound that is pervasive in everyday spoken English, like at the end of “teacher”. Capitals for primary stresses syllable To be honest the whole relationship between letter and sound is so messed up in English that it is nigh on impossible to convey phonetic sounds unambiguously (hence why the phonemic alphabet is even a thing....). Hope this is fairly clear though. *look it up if you’re interested in English linguistics, it’s weirdly fascinating.. [/QUOTE]
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