From: Steven Fosdick
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of -ed
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On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:39:19PM -0200, CAIO ROSSI DE OLIVEIRA wrote:

> Dennis , I'm not a expert, not even a native speaker of English,
> but, applying what is known of Phonetics nowadays, it should be
> pronounced as /Id/. the /I/ here is the same as in 'is", so it
> should sound like the -ed in wanted.

This may be true in Purcell's time but I don't think the example of
the word 'wanted' is a good one.

I know of no-one who would pronounce 'wanted' as if it were 'wantid'.
Thinking through what I and other native english speakers I have heard
say and doing my best to translate to IPA the two possibilties are /E/
or Schwa for the final vowel sound in the word 'wanted'