Me:
> No way. In Standard Canadian English, the
> diphthong "ai" is pronounced /aj/ -- that's a
> central vowel in this case.
Pat says something senseless again:
> SCE <ai> is pronounced [ey] not [ay].
David:
> It isn't really pronounced [ey].
As long as Patrick continues on this Forum, we
will be held hostage by his purposeful stupidity.
At this point, underlining _stupidity_ can't possibly
be an ad hominem if he has taken great strides to
earn that distinction!
First, I ***LIVE*** in Canada! I know what standard
Canadian English sounds like because I live it! I
explained already that the standard is /aj/ and if
anyone wishes to question this, the matter can be
easily settled by watching one of our channels:
Try the CBC =>
http://www.cbc.ca
To be _that_ ignorant about Canadian pronunciation
means that Patrick is too delusional to even click a
few links to see why he's wrong.
Second, The IPA symbol [y] is a rounded front high
vowel which Patrick misused because he also does
not grasp IPA, even after a decade of involving
himself in linguistics online. He meant to write
/ej/... because /ey/ would be just too unbearably
absurd.
= gLeN
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