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name: Midi 🎹 she ; they ; she/fur 🌼 Furry 🐾 OSC ✏️ I'm here for the microblogging part without the scrolling part.

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coppersalts@coppersalts.bsky.social · yesterday

This chart filled in with colors for different dialects: left is my General American right is Standard Southern British I might do more later.

A chart of English vowels colored in based on the qualities of the vowels in my dialect of General American.A chart of English vowels colored in based on the qualities of the vowels in Standard Southern British English.
coppersalts@coppersalts.bsky.social · yesterday

Decided to start actually typesetting my English vowel charts instead of doing it all within the constraints of plaintext. Immediately created a visualization of vowel mergers I haven't seen anywhere else which provides a nice overview that I've been looking for.

A table of English vowels. Each cell contains the vowel's phoneme in Early Modern English and an example word with that vowel. Dashed borders between cells indicate they are merged in some dialects. The density of the dashed line indicates how common the merger is. Dashed borders on the edge of the table are to be interpreted as borders with the cell on the opposite side of the table.
coppersalts@coppersalts.bsky.social · yesterday

Decided to start actually typesetting my English vowel charts instead of doing it all within the constraints of plaintext. Immediately created a visualization of vowel mergers I haven't seen anywhere else which provides a nice overview that I've been looking for.

A table of English vowels. Each cell contains the vowel's phoneme in Early Modern English and an example word with that vowel. Dashed borders between cells indicate they are merged in some dialects. The density of the dashed line indicates how common the merger is. Dashed borders on the edge of the table are to be interpreted as borders with the cell on the opposite side of the table.
coppersalts@coppersalts.bsky.social · 3d ago

Are all the instances of /ʒ/ in English resultant from yod-coalescence?? Do dialects without yod-coalescence just not have /ʒ/? That would explain why it's never spelled anything like ⟨zh⟩.

coppersalts@coppersalts.bsky.social · 4w ago

I find it interesting that the pronunciation of PNG was in the original specification as "ping" but most people don't pronounce it that way, instead pronouncing it as an initialism which has more syllables. Perhaps people prefer not to insert epenthetic vowels in acronyms?