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I guess I'll close by quoting a comment by Lawrence W. Levine (in Black Culture and Black Consciousness ) on transcriptions of 19 th century black speech made by whites:
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
Previous studies have shown the ribonucleoside triphosphate derivatives of modified bases to be effectively incorporated by RNA polymerases [ 17 18 ] , which make them an excellent substrate for use in microarray sample preparations requiring amplification through in vitro transcriptions (IVTs).
Likewise when English-based pidgins and creoles are written down, the phonetic transcriptions use a similar system of modified spellings to indicate pronunciation.
It is not made clear why the standard IPA transcriptions [ai] or [ai] was not used for the vowel sound in I, why, might , etc.: the NSOED shows /\?
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