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jm wrote:
> Did a quick look around the net for phonetic sound files and found this 
> version of english vowels. 
> http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/medialib/epa/vowels.html Perhaps, robin 
> or someone in the know would care to point to the english vowel that is 
> closest. Then phonetics site with the exact sound to avoid confusion 
> (with notation as well as sound if possible).

The closest vowel is "o", except that it is not a vowel but should 
have been classified with the diphthongs ("ou" or "inverted e - u"; 
the u is the lowered one, inverted omega). The way it is, it is about 
as accurate as a transcription of "i" for their diphthong "ay". I like 
tha fact that they transcribe [a] with a instead of the inverted v, 
though.

For the pure vowel, you should get out your old Gigli, Lanza and Pinza 
records.

klaus