XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Antonio Marques  wrote or quoted:   
   >So you were trying to do a 'fully' precise transcription of _router_ in   
   >(some dialect of) american, is that it?   
      
     I wanted to give a phonetic description with the same level of   
     detail as Wells or Canepari. (But I was kind of stuck because   
     a lot of Canepari's special symbols aren't in Unicode.)   
     ("Full" precision isn't really possible in my opinion.)   
      
   >The hypothesis that he didn't know the half length marker is   
   >just not tenable.   
      
     In the meantime, I submitted his 2018 post in full, so now   
     every reader can figure this out for himself!   
      
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