Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote: >> For one thing, most of them seemed to think "i" >> as in "ice" is a single vowel, and "ch" as in >> "church" is a single consonant, and I happened >> to disagree. > > For the latter, compare "catch it" with "cat shzt"
Yep. How do we distinguish the first case, where many think of it as a single "affricative" consonant, from the second? The "t" and "sh" in the second case are longer and more aspirated, distinctions which I didn't make in my alphabet. But IPA, which would be more likely to reach to this level of precision, doesn't necessarily make the distinction either: /ËkÃtÊÉt/ unless U+0361 is used. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
