User talk:Lazarus1907

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IPA
Hi Lazarus!

Thanks for adding the IPA to so many articles. When you do that, could you use the IPA conventions you sometimes link to? The templates pron-en and IPA-en (for English only) force the browser to use an IPA-compatible font (generally required for IE users, since IE isn't IPA compatible by default) and link to our English IPA key at Wikipedia talk:IPA for English‎. (There's also IPA-it etc. for some other languages.)

Basically, the idea is to use a dialect-neutral (diaphonemic) transcription, which effectively is just rhotic England English. (RP vowels but retaining /r/ before C and the horse-hoarse distinction; also transcribing long o as  rather than <əʊ> per consensus when developing the key.)

We also distinguish high and rounded schwas (ə, ɵ, ɪ, ʊ ) and don't transcribe secondary stress when it isn't actually stress (there's no such thing as a primary-secondary stress pattern in English; that's just a convention in some dictionaries for an unreduced vowel).

Thanks! kwami (talk) 22:52, 22 February 2010 (UTC)