(urth) lots of stuff

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 14:47:28 PDT 2010


John Watkins wrote (12-07-2010 22:33):
> All of the speculation and mystery make me consider "Father Inquiry" as
> a possible pun?  (Assuming it's "in-ee-rey" rather than "in-ire-ay" or
> somesuch.)

I suppose the default pronunciation is ['fAT at rI'naI at r]. Does this look like 
something else mistranscribed?

The 'father' part is more or less established, unless 'father' itself is an 
enlgish transalation of a misheard original.

'Inire' itself doesn't seem to offer many possibilities. ['InIri], [I'ni at r], 
[InI'r at I]?

['] stresses the syllable following it
[I] short i
[@] the uh sound in -er
[i] long i
[T] th




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