Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar to the consonantal
"y" in English, as in "yet". As an example of another two words
Oh, "j" like "jagermeister"?
Yes, similar, except that should be "Jaegermeister".
Note that the "j" you are using is the german "j",
which has a different articulation from /j/ in English.
They do sound similar, though.
which are distinguished in my dialect via palatalization, consider
the words "new" and "knew". The first I pronounce as /nu/ the
second as /njew/ (spelled with sort-of English letters as "nyoo").
Similar differences are in "boo" /bu/ and "imbue" /Im:bju/, where
in the second word the "b" is palatal. The colon (":") marks the
accented/emphasized syllable.
OK. Then if it's really a "yuh", why use a "j"?
You'd have to ask the people who set up the phonetic
alphabet for English. It may have to do with the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) already having
a symbol "y" which indicates a certain type of umlauted
"u".
Mike
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