Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 06:59:23 EST


Ar 07:40 -0800 2001-01-15, scríobh John Jenkins:
>On Monday, January 15, 2001, at 06:34 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> The pronuncuation ['juni:ko:d] with [i:] or [i] instead of schwa
>> irritates
>> me a lot. No one would pronounce "universe" with an [i].
>>
>
>Then forgive me, Michael, for I have sinned. I just sent in to Mark a
>Deseret Alphabet transcription that uses [i]. In my defense, I tend to
>find short, unstressesd vowels hard to tell apart in many English
>words. I really don't know what vowel I use in "universe." And the DA
>doesn't have a true schwa symbol, anyway.

For Deseret, the spelling should be as it is in the Deseret First Primer.
On the title page "university" is written <yiu:niv@rsiti>. So, <yiu:nikod>
I guess.

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