Confused monk
Bonobo edit
Merriam-Webster and the OED are "non-public source"s? It's difficult to tell if you're being serious. Regardless, being a "public source" is not a requirement for references. kwami (talk) 23:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
- You're accusing me of being a liar because you can't find a word in a dictionary? Why don't you go to your local library and ask them to help you? kwami (talk) 18:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
- I accuse you of lying, because you added your invented symbol. Dictionary says oʊ or ə.--Confused monk (talk) 18:26, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
- I could say the same, because you falsely accused me, but I'm not calling you a liar. "Dictionary says oʊ or ə"—exactly. That's what we're transcribing [ɵ]. Some phonological descriptions use [ŏ], which we could certainly use if people agreed to it. It doesn't really matter which symbol we use; what's important is that the key explains the symbols that are used in the articles. kwami (talk) 19:22, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
- Not that it really matters, but I found someone who "made up" this symbol before I did: Bolinger 1989. I was going on 2ary sources which transcribed B's distinction with <ŏ>, but just looked up B himself, and he uses <ɵ>. He contrasts (p 360) a mission with [ə], emission with [ɨ], and omission with [ɵ]. Omission is another case where the OED has [oʊ] and Webster's gives [oʊ] and [ə] as alternates, just as they do for bónobo. QED. kwami (talk) 21:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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before the question. Again, welcome! Beeblebrox (talk) 23:46, 27 June 2009 (UTC)