Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects

Columns with lexical sets and examples
Can we sticky the columns with the lexical sets and examples too? I tried to, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work properly. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:23, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Grammatical error in title
There is more than 1 chart in this article so its title should be International Phonetic Alphabet charts for English dialects rather than the singular chart.

1.126.109.57 (talk) 17:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Dialect abbreviations in comments?
I want to propose the addition of comments to the markup of at least the vowel chart to make it easier to find cells that editors are trying to edit. For example, the first few non-header cell of the vowel chart, which are currently: | colspan="2" |ɛː~ɛə̯~eə̯ would instead become: | colspan="2" |ɛː~ɛə̯~eə̯ &lt;-- AAVE --> or: | &lt;-- AAVE --> colspan="2" |ɛː~ɛə̯~eə̯
 * colspan="2" | &lt;ref name="shortatensing" />
 * rowspan="4" |
 * colspan="2" |eə~ɛə
 * colspan="2" | &lt;ref name="shortatensing" /> &lt;-- Boston -->
 * rowspan="4" | &lt;-- Cajun -->
 * colspan="2" |eə~ɛə &lt;-- California -->
 * &lt;-- Boston --> colspan="2" | &lt;ref name="shortatensing" />
 * &lt;-- Cajun --> rowspan="4" |
 * &lt;-- California --> colspan="2" |eə~ɛə

As a related but separate proposal, I would find it helpful to include tags indicating the rows with the example word from the rightmost column; the first row, currently, would become   (or maybe  ).

Do other editors think these changes would make the current markup/code easier to use or more difficult? (I would of course volunteer to take on this effort; I'm not trying to propose more work for someone else.) -Literally Satan (talk) 21:03, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Less DEI please
This page should be restricted to varieties of English with an educational basis. African voiceless lateral sounds and dialects from non-native countries do not belong here.

124.169.158.113 (talk) 13:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Wider than tall
The table as shown in the article is a lot wider than it is tall. Would it not be a better idea to reorient the table vertically, so that the dialects are at the left and the diaphonemes are at the top and bottom? It would still be too wide for many people's screens, but at least not by as much as the table is now. - Gilgamesh (talk) 02:02, 8 July 2024 (UTC)