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Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English? Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange
by howlgarnish 6y ago
Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English?
Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange" as a schwa, but to many people it's /i/:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange#Pronunciation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange#Pronunciation
- grzm 6y agoI just lazily copied and pasted the phonetics from the New Oxford American Dictionary :)
- naniwaduni 6y agoIt's generally in the range of /ɪ/~/ɨ/. Descriptions of English regularly conflate the ɪɛʌ with ə as they behave somewhat similarly wrt stress-related sound changes.