I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

This is from a book by Molly Gloss of Portland, Oregon regarding the Esperanto used in her SF novel. Because ... as it is spelled. Vowels are sounded ah, eh, ee, oh, oo - as in "Are there three or two?" This comes pretty close. Others

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' as an example of voiced 'th'. This is from a book by Molly Gloss of Portland, Oregon regarding the Esperanto used in her

The same distinction between /a/ (before voiceless) and /A/ (before voiced) extends to /aj/ and /Aj/. Hence 'bike' /bajk/, 'line' /lAjn/, etc. It's standard to have different allophones here, but usually the difference is that

I'm not sure that I can detect the difference between ... the same to me. Could you perhaps elaborate on this? Aaron can almost certainly describe the history better than I can, but here goes: You've got it about right, as far as I can

But the 'People call me "Bob"' segment of Mr. Cunningham's recording at the above URL has a near-perfect "aw" and "ah" that could easily become the alt.usage.english standard for "aw" and