In a message dated 2002-01-23 13:32:39 Pacific Standard Time,
pandries@iti.qc.ca writes:
>> Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
>> lists only (fil' här män' ik).
>
> BTW, are those two a's really identical?
They are in my dialect, a mixture of Southern California and Great Lakes, but
not in some others. For example, they would be different in British RP.
By the way... (desperate attempt to get this thread back on-topic)
- the first is U+10402 (or U+1042A)
- the second is U+10409 (or U+10431)
The biggest problem I had learning the Deseret Alphabet was figuring out the
difference between these two vowels, especially they're the same to me. Now
I decide on the basis of how I think the vowels would be pronounced in RP, so
"philharmonic" is spelled:
10441 1042E 1044A 10438 1042A 10449 1044B 10431 1044C 1042E 1043F
(Yes, I pronounce both the h and the r.)
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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