Here’s an interesting puzzle: how do you uppercase a small caps symbol? In the IPA there are a couple of them: ʙ, ʟ, ɢ, ɴ, ʀ, ʜ, ʛ, ɪ, ʏ, ɶ. Everson didn’t have to deal with any of these because they represent sounds that aren’t used in English. There are a bunch of other ones used in non-IPA phonetics inventories, like ᴀ, ᴁ, ᴃ, ᴄ, ᴅ ᴆ, ᴇ, ꜰ, ᴊ, ᴋ, ᴌ, ᴍ, ᴎ, ᴏ, ᴐ, ᴕ, ᴘ, ꝶ, ꜱ, ᴛ, ᴜ, ᴠ, ᴡ, ᴢ, and ᴣ. There are even Greek ones around like ᴦ, ᴧ, ᴨ, ᴩ, and ᴪ. Even Cyrillic makes an appearance with ᴫ. There aren’t Unicode case pairs for any of these, but how would someone design an uppercase version of a small cap letter without it looking the same as the ordinary uppercase?

Mixed-case phonetics is an oxymoron.

Well, if Michael is using uppercase in his Alice, then he is not really using IPA, since the IPA alphabet has no uppercase (and doesn't need one).

Joe, I think 'transliterating' is the wrong term to use here: transliteration refers to script-to-script text mapping. The IPA alphabet provides for phonetic transcription of spoken language, which I presume is what Michael is doing: i.e. transcribing the oral pronunciation of the text. And that's an odd project, since English pronunciation isn't exactly standardised. I wonder, is the transcription how Michael pronounces it? how Dodgson would have pronounced it? how someone in the Ozarks would pronounce it?

I am interested in seeing how he handles the one test of his mindfulness:

"Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?"
"Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounced it "arrum.")
"An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole window!"
"Sure it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that."

I do hope Michael shows up to explain his rationale.

hhp