Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:46:32 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Nathan Sanders writes:

> > Based on the number of questions you have asked, and the serious
> > confusion you have shown, maybe the IPA isn't so easy after all...
>
> Compared to other proprietary schemes I've seen, it's simplicity
> incarnate. I've always wondered why it isn't more widely used in
> English dictionaries.

Because the respelling system used in most (American) English
dictionaries goes back nearly a century before the IPA was even a gleam
in Paul Passy's eye. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net
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