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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: IPA question
Message-ID: <rdd-1308961049320001@dmn1-29.usa1.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 10:49:32 -0500
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How did <[V]> come to be used to represent the vowel used in RP "cut" and
the like? According to all IPA charts, [V] is a lower-middle back
unrounded vowel, while the vowel in "cut" is very definitely a center
vowel, closer to IPA "turned a" (which for some reason has no equivalent
in ASCII). How did this conventionally inaccurate transcription come
about?

Please respond by e-mail or to alt.usage.english, since I don't read
sci.lang regularly.

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

