Date:  Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:16:11 -0800

From:  Sylvia Swift <madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU>

Subject: Re: whoop(s) and woops



as Beverly Flanigan keenly observed:

>

>   (Incidentally, perhaps Sylvia Swift has her IPA vowels reversed? Thus,

>   /U/ should be /u/ and vice versa; and what Daddy does is /wUHp/='whip'

>   alternate [how do we make an upside-down V=stressed schwa here??].

>   Similarly, /wh/ should be /hw/, Old English-style.



guilty on both counts. left my ipa spelling in my other pants. i'm hella

chagrined (and it seemed like such a safe thread!). all four have the

vowel of "too" for me. i have seen the e-convention (perhaps on

LINGUIST?) of writing schwa as [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] (at/each); were daddy to whup me, i'd

need that schwa to describe it.



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet.berkeley.edu