... It depends on your dialect ;) Shavian is based on an accent very close to British RP (Received Pronunciation), which makes a distinction between those...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 1, 2002 10:56 am
... And also "dance". Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>...
Speakers of British Received Pronunciation need to understand that North American speakers need to look these words up in a British (not American) dictionary...
Hugh Birkenhead recommends www.dictionary.com as a source for British Received Pronunciation. I can't find a key to their pronunciation markup on their Web...
Hey bob... I used to live in Maryville. Anyway, I have found that I often make a distinction be ah, short o, and awe. But let's be frank here, we Tennesseeans...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 1, 2002 3:43 pm
... In (standard, non-rhotic) RP, both "clerk" and "Clark" are pronunced like "clahk". The first word doesn't rhyme with "work", even though it looks as if it...
Star writes: >.Hey Bob... I used to live in Maryville.<< Of course, Maryville, Tennessee (a community to the south of Knoxville) is pronounced murvle by the...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 1, 2002 4:38 pm
... Hey! K-Town is Kaiserslautern in south-west Germany! (Where there is a US army base.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>...
Hi Philip Newton! ... army base.)<< Don't I know! I lived there for two years 1953-55, graduated from the American high school there, and am the president of...
... look at the Read_Alphabet group here at ... go to http://quikscript.teraiten.cjb.net/ for more information about Quickscript and typing in Shavian and...
Oh, clerk rhyming with work: an er making an er sound, yet another example as to why we americans are better :) Just kidding! --Star ... ===== Defeat is not...
maraville by the locals thanks, only k-towners and other yankees or yankee wannabees call it murvul. For further resourses, please see the musical "the music...
... no, we maravillians call it K-town, but only long after we have left :P --Star ===== Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true...
Of course we British are somewhat phonetically challenged: Norwich (Norritch, not Norrwitch) Leicester (Lester, not Leysester) Loughborough (Luffburra, not...
Alright, time for me to be snarky... ... You limeys and your silly names for things, add to Connecticut, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and many other...
Of course, in the USA we inherit a lot of English place names with their orthographic problems - I'm told that Leicester (a town in western North Carolina) is...
I've read that the pronunciation of English place names is in many instances being conformed to the orthography. Is that true? Will Worcestershire become ...
Hi there, welcome to the group! There's a few things you said I think I can help with... ... From: rubik67 To: shavian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 01,...
Hi everyone, I was a member of the saundspel group because I wasn't aware there was a Shavian mailing list until today. So I've already announced there what ...
Hi everyone, I was a member of the saundspel group because I wasn't aware there was a Shavian mailing list until today. So I've already announced there what ...
I have problems with my Web browser sometimes, which cause things to be posted twice. I'll be making most of my posts from a regular mail client, though. -- ...
Hi. I've never used Shavian before, but I've always thought it would be cool if I could find a quicker way to write stuff down. Question 1: Can Shavian...
... None of the above :). Once you've learned it, it may be a bit faster than regular writing, since its strokes are very simple, and there are no digraphs...
I won't respond to Shavian being a novelty alphabet, that's already been responded to. ;) If you are interested in a method that will help you write more ...
... I started with Shavian a year ago and found it a clever way to write. I'm always in the position of having to make notes about people I am sitting with,...
... think I can help with... ... was ... most people have considered Shavian. However, even I have grudgingly accepted the unlikelihood of Shavian replacing...
... chart, ... pairs are ... things. It's ... Another suggestion I could make is to create your own Shavian "Flash cards". Just get some 3x5 cards and cut...
... That'll teach me not to post before reading through the rest of the thread. :-) L8r....
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 8, 2002 4:17 am
... (Or use "sin king, sinking, seen king".) I also think I have three different vowels in this triplet. ... Well, the rhotics are a bit different... that's...
