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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: question about names for symbols (IPA)
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 06:41:31 EDT
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Sorry for the double posting, I should have done this all at once.

For the IPA symbols, we have the problem ourselves here of referring to
them, since they won't go out over ASCII.  I could try to draw them, but...

The velar nasal consonant (n with right leg extended like descender of g) is
often called ENGMA.  The mid-high mid-back vowel ("uh") is CARET, since
indeed the symbol in other uses is just that.  The Greek letters of course
inherit their regular names.  The voiced "th" is "crossed d" or "barred d"
for some people, and thorn for others -- though it's not exactly the
same as the old thorn character.

Throughout that, I should have been saying "The symbol for ... is called".


            -- Mitch Marks
               @ UChicago (linguistics)
               ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar