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[fox]

"Is that supposed to be a semi-vowel or a voiced palatal affricate?"

When I'm in charge of the world, IPA will be compulsory for all phonetic transcriptions. The fact that in English we don't have the sound German spells with a u-umlaut and French spells with a u -- a high front rounded vowel -- will not give us license to be utter sissies and appropriate the symbol [y] for the sound that begins the word "yowza". The symbol for that is [j], and I'm fed up with seeing that symbol for the sound that begins the word "jitter." It confuses me, and I don't like being confused.

That is all.

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

It's a [j] with an upside-down circumflex over it instead of a dot. "j-wedge." Can't produce it here. :-) (There are also those who consider it a combination of [d] and "z-wedge," and put them both in the same set of brackets, or a combination of a g with an acute accent and z-wedge, and put them both in the same set of brackets. I was previously taught that it's one sound, represented by j-wedge, but my current professor insists it's actually two. And he keeps saying we'll come back to it. So in another few weeks, I might have some more things to say about this -- and also c-wedge, which can also be transcribed with [t] and s-wedge or k-acute and s-wedge, and which is the sound that begins the word "chill.")

:-D