If two pronunciations have vowels from different phonemes, then the broad-phonetic transcriptions of those two pronunciations should use symbols corresponding to the appropriate phonemes. From this paragraph it sounds like what you're

In that Chambers list, I approximately have two allophones for that 'ee' or /i/ vowel. One comprises the vowel heard in lean/dene/chief/seize; the other comprises the vowel heard in keel/gear/hear/sheer/query. "Gear"? Say, for my

The Chambers Dictionary (1993 edition) has a pronunciation symbol that they say corresponds to the vowels in "lean, keel, ... query". Is there anyone in the English speaking world who pronounces "here" and "lean" with

How would Bob have reacted if I'd proposed using Chambers' system? Boo! The Chambers Dictionary (1993 edition) has a pronunciation symbol that they say corresponds to the vowels in ... query". Is there anyone in the English speaking

Looking at your rendition of your name got me wondering ... it) that way. It feels like it should be /bArnz/. Maybe the phonemes /bA:nz/ universally in English specify the word & surname , while the surname is universally in English

(about the pronunciation guide at m-w.com) ( . . . ) If they used phonetic transcriptions, they'd need a lot more symbols. They'd also reject every accent but one and it's not yours or mine. I think that's a common misconception. A

( . . . ) How would Bob have reacted if I'd proposed using Chambers' system? Boo! The Chambers Dictionary (1993 edition) has a pronunciation symbol that they say corresponds to the vowels in "lean, keel, dene, chief, seize, gear,

"Frances Kemmish" kija kitbet So what informal notation do you propose that can be ... you, Im genuinely curiosu toknow if such a beast exists. Perhaps one could use the example words in the table here:

They're not entirely consistent in the way they pronounce words and the way they transcribe the pronunciations. For example, they ... in ASCII IPA, (lA:) for "law" and (lOr) for "lore"; in modified M-W, (la:) for

Dena Jo and others want a way other than ASCII IPA to represent pronunciation. I have objected to ad hoc transcriptions because there's no way to pin down what the symbols stand for. It has occurred to me that we have a ready-made system