Phonology and transliteration

[Nick NICHOLAS <nsn@vis.mu.oz.au>]

Just one thing that seems to be forgotten in all the fuss about xamburk/
xamburg. There is a very good reason Hamburg is written as Hamburg. /hamburg/
is the phonologically underlying form (thus, /hamburger/, not /hamburker/).

There's a lot to be said for going for the phonologically underlying form
in my book. Of course, that kills off a lot of schwas in English name
transliterations, but it may ultimately be more intuitive...

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