From lojbab@access.digex.net  Sat Mar  6 22:44:51 2010
Date: Sun May 14 06:23:50 1995
From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>
To: dpt@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Subject: Re:  cmene for "Thurston"
X-From-Space-Date: Sun May 14 06:23:50 1995
X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@access.digex.net
Message-ID: <yO0XLc_8pcG.A.efE.jt0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

Indeed, the way I would pronounce your name on sight would be dil,n.
Most (American) English speakers turn final unstressed -en -el -er, -em,
and often the corresponding -V{lmnr} as wll into the respective
syllabics with no explicit vowel.  At best there will be a drawing out
of the letter that might make one think there is a schwa there, until
you try to say it explicitly with a schwa.  JCB had some viirtue in his
idea for repressenting syllabic conssonantss by a double letter - if
only he had done so consistently throughout his language.  In which case
you might be dil,nn.  Perhaps with the implied lengthening of the nn,
you would be more comfortable with it.

The only "vowels" from the standpoint of the morphology are a/e/i/o/u
and y for non-hyphen situations.  (As a hypen, it is considered more of
a linking noise akin to the hesitation sound "uh".)

lojbab