Tom Parmenter wrote:
The intimidating SAMPA table gives examples like { "as in London English cat".
Hm. Must go clean that up!
Would that be Cockney or BBC? I don't speak either. The best system for me would be to render it in Spanish, Norwegian, or German, phonetic languages that I know how to pronounce. (smiley)
Absolutely. We could have a SAMPA/German, SAMPA/Norwegian and SAMPA/Spanish pages, each giving pronunciation guides for the same common symbols. And there's another case for using the IPA or a derivative: non-English speakers won't necessarily know how to pronounce "CHOW-pek"