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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: The Tune-Questionaire
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In article <rte-1408951006300001@mac-118.lz.att.com> rte@elmo.lz.att.com
(Ralph T. Edwards) writes:

>None of the above take /j/ for most US speakers.  t, d, n take /j/ in some
>parts of the East coast.

Also the Deep South, including east Texas.

>Daniel Jones was the Father of the standard IPA representation for RP.
>Also the inspiration for Henry Higgins.

The IPA is quite a bit older than Daniel Jones.

Henry Higgins was based on *Henry Sweet*, an older contemporary of Shaw, and
*not* on the much younger Jones.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
