Re: Re: Pronunciation

--- Nelson Bank <natlunla-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What pronunciation do you teach?
> 
> Standard American English.  There are 36 sounds in
> Standard American English.  There are 10 pure vowel
> sounds.  
so what conspiracy is there Nelson when a simple
google search leads me to
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/lsp/IPA/SSAE.html
which says clearly that there are 12 simple vowel
sounds, not 10 as the upside down v and curly u that
you choose to ignore is not a conpiracy of printers or
anyone else but firmly recognised by the IPA
organisation and as Dick has already explained, they
are needed and helpful, if a bit academic where
they'll be less useful depending on the students you
are teaching.

Russ Taylor




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