How might I spell...

steveland?

the first syllable of the word casual.

You know what I mean... people say it all the time but we were just wondering how might it be spelt. Nothing looks right.

Cash
Casu
Caj
Casj
Cahj

cyberbob

SteveD wrote:

the first syllable of the word casual.

You know what I mean... people say it all the time but we were just wondering how might it be spelt. Nothing looks right.

Cash
Casu
Caj
Casj
Cahj

by using that funky phonetic alphabet that dictionarys use :
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=casual

D!ve^Bomb!

SteveD wrote:

the first syllable of the word casual.

You know what I mean... people say it all the time but we were just wondering how might it be spelt. Nothing looks right.

Cash
Casu
Caj
Casj
Cahj

what the fúck are you talking about?

The Sweeper

The original poster is looking for a way to phonetically spell the first syllable of the word "casual".

I would suggest maybe... cazj?

steveland?

Hmm... kăzh just don't look right...

Besides they just say it's pronounced ca·su·al

That's ca-su-al like no j sound in the su part...

Ah well I guess we'll just never know...

Bass.exe

Kā

You always use K for hard C sounds, and to make a letter sound like its capital, you put a line over it... i.e. my nick is Bāss.exe

Edit: Su would be Zhu , and Al would be... al:D

steveland?

The ă is more of a kind of up sound though (see it's not just horizontal like ā)

Like Kah which is what I'm going for

Victor

I.n.f.o.r.m.a.l.

DEmeant0r

cah-shu-al

steveland?

Bass.exe wrote:

i.e. my nick is Bāss.exe

And here I was thinking you were going for the executable version of Bertie's favourite tipple

The Sweeper

Might I just add that, if this is for some naff D4 email to some mate of yours where you're trying to write "dress code for the noight is cazj mon, ya know, so coolie beans yah?", a pox upon your progeny.

steveland?

Demeant0r wrote:

cah-shu-al

It's not the phoenetic spelling of casual I'm looking for. Just the 'cas'ual part of it...

Like kahj(best yet) to describe clothes or something


No it's not for some D4 head... who do you think I am?????

It just came up in a conversation one time...

Bass.exe

SteveD wrote:

And here I was thinking you were going for the executable version of Bertie's favourite tipple

It gets more confusing when I just go by "Bass", cause then ppl are wondering "Does he mean the instrument/the megaman character/Beneath a Steel Sky/the fish/the drink/(and once) the type of jumping where you leap off a tall building.

In case you are wondering... it originally came from the instrument, but I had to add .exe because Bass is already taken on EVERY site on the internet.... much like Megaman, Zero... and all the rest of those characters. Bleh....

Gordon

Cas.

is_that_so

Phonetically the first part of casual would be
'kaз' The final symbol is Cyrillic/Russian and is pronounced the same way , Unicode value is 0437, so browser needs to be set to UTF8

Check out the IPA web site
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html

Alternatively any decent dictionary will show the phonetic spelling

steveland?

is_that_so wrote:

Alternatively any decent dictionary will show the phonetic spelling

Well ya see the reason I can't find it in a dictionary is cos it ain't an actual word. All the dictionaries take into account the fact that there's a u after it which softens the s into a j-ish sound

beardedchicken

the sound you're looking for is the same sound as the one in the middle of "vision" and "evasion", and the one at the start of "Zsa Zsa" (Gabor). perhaps the easiest way for a non-phonetician to represent this sound is something like "zh", like a voiced version of "sh". the IPA symbol for it looks like a "z" with a tail, or a fancy "3". (you don't really need to know, but the name of the sound is a voiced postalveolar fricative)

if you look at this website, you can click each of the sounds to hear how it's pronounced (he pronounces each consonant sound between two vowels)
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

look for fricative on the vertical axis and postalveolar on the horizontal axis and you'll find the one you want.

steveland?

beardedchicken wrote:

like a "z" with a tail

Like Jimmy Page's Led Zep symbol?

beardedchicken

i don't know the led zep symbol, but if you look at that website, you'll see the one i'm talking about. as I said, though, the best way to represent it for you would probably be something like "zh" - it's close to "sh"