Re: Which characters to use for (pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd)

 
> Which characters to use for (pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd)?

Would this be a good candidate for a FAQ page?

Kenneth Whistler wrote,

> Certainly the "pronunciation" doesn't pass muster as an actual
> representation, because it wouldn't need 4 stress marks. And
> the e-acutes don't follow American dictionaries, either. They
> might have been a substitution for schwas that the font didn't
> have.

They might have been for mere effect, as in the band name
"Blue Öyster Cult" and others.   (See the Wikipedia article 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut
if interested in gratuitous diacritics in band names.)

The intended audience might be expected to mentally remove the
diacritics and just pronounce it "leh-nerd skin-nerd".  (I've 
always pronounced it "linnerd skinnerd", which is probably 
close enough.)

Best regards,

James Kass