From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: "Route"
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:33:08 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
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From the keyboard of eager@eagercon.com:
:I have heard three distinct pronounciations for route:  root, rowt, ruit.
:I've even heard someone who pronounced it different depending on whether
:it was a 'paper route' (root) or a 'main route' (rowt).

"root" is not unambiguous, as I continue to point out.  In many areas
of the country, it rhymes with "foot", while in others, it rhymes 
with "hoot".  

And I've no idea what "ruit" means.

Here is the IPA in ASCII chart; I sure wish people would use it.


LOWERCASE LETTERS

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz- all have their standard IPA 
	lower-case value, with exceptions noted below.

UPPERCASE LETTES

    a,A) -in languages which have two open vowels, 'a' should be used for
	  the sound closer to the front of the mouth, and 'A' should be
	  used for the more velar sound. thus in english, 'a' would
	  represent the 'ash' sound, and 'A' would represent the sound in
	  'car' or 'father', yet 'a' would keep its ipa value in
	  diphthongs.  however, in french, 'a' would be pronounced a la
	  ipa, and 'A' would be pronounced as the 'a with a circumflex'
	  sound.

    D) this is the edh sound that you people are so fond of.
    E) the vowel sound as in 'pet'
    F) voiceless bilabial fricative
    G) voiced uvular stop
    H) voiceless palatal fricative
    I) vowel sound in 'pig'
    J) voiced palatal stop
    L) palatal lateral
    M) labio-dental nasal
    N) palatal nasal
    O) vowel sound in 'dog'
    Q) voiceless uvular fricative
    r,R) 'r' should normally be used for any sound represented by the
	 letter 'r' in any languages, except in languages which have two
	 'r' sounds, such as spanish, where both 'r' and 'R' should be
	 used, you decide which sound is which.

    S) voiceless alveolar-palatal sibilant
    T) the ever-popular 'thorn' or 'theta' sound
    U) the vowel sound in 'put'
    V) voiced bilabial fricative
    W) voiceless 'w' (could also be /hw/)
    X) voiced velar fricative
    Y) lax version of /y/, found in german.
    Z) voiced alveolar-palatal sibilant,
    0) the zero should be used for any rounded version of 'e' or 'E',
       that is 'o with an umlaut or o with a line through it' . for those
       of you whose zeroes have lines through them, you are lucky. for me,
       i can tell the difference between 'O' and '0', but it is very subtle.

OTHER SYMBOLS

    @) either the schwa sound (unstressed), or the vowel sound 
	in 'gut' (stressed)
    @r) either sound in 'murmur'
    ?)  glottal stop
    g~) velar nasal
    ~)  means that the previous sound has been nasalized.
    :)  means that the previous sound has been lengthened, so the French
	word 'an' would be /A~:/
    ')  means that the following sound receives primary stress
    ,)  means that the following sound receives secondary stress
     )  a space indicates a new syllable to follow

And folks, remember to use your [], //, and * when applicable.


    Examples:

	english) 'i hate dogs and cats' would be
		 /aj hejt dO:gz and kats/

	french)  'comment vas-tu?' would be
		 /,kO mA~ vA 'ty/

	spanish) 'Uvas y saguaros rara vez crecen juntos' would be
		 /'u VaS i Sa 'Wa roS 'Ra ra VeT 'cre Ten 'Xun toS/ (iber.)
		 /'u Vas i sa 'Wa ros 'Ra ra Ves 'cre sen 'Hun tos/ (amer.)

	german)  'ich habe sauerkraut in meine lederhosen' would be
		 /IH 'ha b@ 'zaU @r ,kraUt in 'maI n@ 'le: d@r ,ho z@n/


That means that "root" can be pronounced /rut/ or /rUt/.  "route"
can be pronounced uther /rut/ or /raut/, although from the German
example, one might construe they mean /raUt/.  Now, what the 
devil is "ruit"?  


--tom

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    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist


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