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Originally Posted by qole View Post
I (and most most English speaking Canadians) pronounce the 'o' in Monica as /ɔː/ (the same way I pronounce "paw" or "caught"), is that what you mean? I don't see an "o" in the IPA key.
No, that was not really what I meant. I meant that both my suggestion /ma'æ:mo/ and qgil's /ma'ɛ:mo/ are basically the same (the one he uses in his address). We had the same sound in our heads when we wrote these, just with different 'interpretations' of the IPA (yes, they vary sometimes).

And about the way you pronounce 'Monica': really? The /ɔː/ sound usually refers to the way the British pronounce 'paw' and 'caught'. Compare the pronunciation in the link for the British pronunciation with the usual AmE pronunciation in this one (the website shows a similar IPA transcription but the sound is clearly different from the IPA symbols there). Try this for disambiguation, and to clarify what I meant in the beginning =). Maybe you meant /ɒ/?

I think we should have T-Shirts with the IPA for Maemo on them.
Love the idea . We could even joke about this whole mess of different pronunciations. Put them all in the front of the shirt with question marks in each and the (hopefully) chosen mascot in the back with an official Maemo logo (which I believe is the one in the top (??) )

Last edited by Bobbe; 2009-05-19 at 05:27.
 

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