Re: Pronunciation of "Arial"

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 17:23:05 EDT


Ar 09:04 -0800 2000-07-14, scríobh John H. Jenkins:

>Personally, I don't much care, particularly considering the fact that
>we can't agree on a pronunciation of "Unicode."

I prefer ['ju:nIko:d]. I dislike it when it's pronounced ['ju:ni:,ko:d].
Cf. Universe. Though of course why any of you should care what I prefer I
dunno.

>And wouldn't be just *wonderful* to have a phonetic alphabet
>especially designed for English?

Deseret and Shavian spring to mind.

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