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As I said, there is a lot more where this came from, on individual letters and their uses in English, on the sounds and their dfferent spellings, differences between British and American - all done with my accent system, as an alternative to the IPA - though of course I'd be happy to include explanatory IPA symbols.  It's a fact that many people, foreign learners and native speakers, find the IPA unhelpful and annoying (just ask [[User:Hayford Peirce]]!).  [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 13:17, 7 November 2007 (CST)
As I said, there is a lot more where this came from, on individual letters and their uses in English, on the sounds and their dfferent spellings, differences between British and American - all done with my accent system, as an alternative to the IPA - though of course I'd be happy to include explanatory IPA symbols.  It's a fact that many people, foreign learners and native speakers, find the IPA unhelpful and annoying (just ask [[User:Hayford Peirce]]!).  [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 13:17, 7 November 2007 (CST)
:: on library, both r's get pronounced. see [http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=library] [[User:Richard Jensen|Richard Jensen]] 20:35, 15 November 2007 (CST)

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This is an excerpt from an unpublished treatise I wrote. I have put in the IPA in a couple of examples. I'll leave it to someone else to remove the accents, should they wish. Ro Thorpe 17:13, 26 October 2007 (CDT)

As I said, there is a lot more where this came from, on individual letters and their uses in English, on the sounds and their dfferent spellings, differences between British and American - all done with my accent system, as an alternative to the IPA - though of course I'd be happy to include explanatory IPA symbols. It's a fact that many people, foreign learners and native speakers, find the IPA unhelpful and annoying (just ask User:Hayford Peirce!). Ro Thorpe 13:17, 7 November 2007 (CST)

on library, both r's get pronounced. see [1] Richard Jensen 20:35, 15 November 2007 (CST)