Talk:romanisation
Latest comment: 15 years ago by Bogorm in topic US pronunciation?!
Merge tag removed[edit]
Shakespeare said (King Lear) Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter!. The Oxford and Cambridge university presses have been ignoring the Englishman's wish to retain the -s- in such words as regularise. Long may they fail - This is a legitimate spelling of Romanise in the UK. (They blame the Greek of course, but that is not a good enough reason.) —Saltmarsh 15:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
US pronunciation?![edit]
How on earth can we keep a US audio file for a word which has the current spelling only in Eurasian(=British) English? I suggest either replacing the current pronunciation file with the one according to British English, or removing it and keeping it on the entry for the regional spelling (romanization) only. Bogorm 10:43, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- Interesting question. The grey-area in all of this is Canadian English, which uses selected spellings which correspond to either British or U.S. style, but is often accepting of either. The Canadian pronunciation for many words is similar or identical to General American.
- To give a concrete example, labour and labor are spellings of the same word. A reader with a U.S. accent will pronounce them both the same way, even though they might not to choose to write with the former spelling. And this reader's pronunciation of labour could also serve to illustrate a Canadian pronunciation of labour. —Michael Z. 2008-11-26 19:23 z