On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > #On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > #> JEN - oh - een > > #Jenoine > # /'jen-oh-i:n/ > #i: life, sky > # > #I get JEN-oh-ine out of that. > # > #I had JEN-oh-EEN in my head originally. > > Oh, RATS!! > > I've been reading and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), the > linguistic standard notation for speech sounds, since I was about > twelve, and that's a LONG time. It's long since become reflexive. IPA > [i:] is "ee". That's what tripped me up. JEN-oh-ine sets my teeth on edge for some reason - think I'll dare to be wrong. You can too.