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What is a phonetic example?
What is phonetics in English grammar?
Any word with silent letters is likely to be a trap.
- Answer is one such; there are differences between tongue and plague; there is a difference between timeline and Bakelite. In fact, many names can be awkward — the classic example is Featherstonehaugh (pronounced Fanshaw).
Words where the verb has the same spelling as the noun.
- Process, record, recess. However employ has the stress on the second syllable for both cases, just to be difficult.
Words where a collection of phonemes is compressed or omitted.
- The p in raspberry disappears; goose in gooseberry is not the same as the bird.
Words where a largely-obsolete pronunciation is retained.
- Bagged, gagged, nagged, sagged, tagged, wagged, but compare ragged. Where that means "untidy" the separate -ed is retained; where it means "joshed, teased", it isn't.
ðɪs ɪz ə letə ɪn fəni:mɪk skrɪpt ‖ ɪts wʌn θɪŋ tə bi eɪbl tə seɪ ə wɜ:b | bət ɪts ənʌðə tə bi eɪbl tə bi ʌndəstʊd
pəhæps | ju dʒəs ni:d tə meɪk ðə həʊl θɪŋ ə bɪp mɔ:r ɪntrestɪŋ | fə jə sʌn
fər ɪgzæmpl ‖ ju kʊd gɪv ɪm səm rɪdlz | ɔ: sm dʒəʊks
hɪəz ə dʒəʊk fə ju ‖
waɪ wəz sɪks efreɪd əv sevn?
bɪkəz sevn eɪt naɪn!
ɔ: ju kʊd dʒəs raɪt ɪm səm letəz ɪn fəni:mɪk skrɪpt ‖
aɪ həʊp ðæt helps ‖ gʊd lʌk
I am graduating this semester and I'll be partaking in the graduation ceremony. My university sent me an email, asking me to provide the "phonetic spelling/pronunciation of [my] full name", but I am 99.9% sure they aren't looking for IPA, but for this hacky pseudo-phonetic system that I've seen people use a lot online. The problem is, while I know IPA, I don't really know that system. Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence for these two systems for American English vowels (Northeast, cot-caught split)? Here's my best attempt:
/i/ → <ee>
/ɪ/ → <i>
/ɛ/ → <eh> ??
/æ/ → <a>
/ɑ/ → ??
/ɔ/ → <aw>
/ʌ~ə/ → <uh>
/ʊ/ → ??
/u/ → <oo>
/aɪ/ → <eye>
/ɔɪ/ → <oy>
/eɪ/ → <ay>
/aʊ/ → ??
/oʊ/ → <oe>
Or I can just be a total snob and tell them "here's the IPA, good luck" xD