Romicadj.n.
/ˈrəʊmɪk/, U.S. /ˈroʊmɪk/ Phonetics. Now historical.
A. adj.
Designating a system of phonetic notation devised by Henry Sweet (1845–1912), and based on the letters of the Roman alphabet, or their imagined phonetic values; consisting of or written in this notation.
ΘΚΠ
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broad1877
narrow1877
Romic1877
analphabetic1889
antalphabetic1933
impressionistic1939
1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 102 This system, which I call ‘Romic’ (because based on the original Roman values of the letters).
1890 Notes & Queries 30 Aug. 176/2 The final sound is ‘the obscure vowel’, represented, in romic notation, by a turned e or (ə).
1930 Stud. Philol. 27 558 It was Sweet who invented the Broad Romic system of phonetic notation.
1995 J. Drucker Alphabet. Labyrinth (1999) ix. 251 Pitman's system was in part incorporated into the International Phonetic Alphabet, along with..the Romic characters of the renowned phoneticist Henry Sweet.
B. n.
The Romic alphabet or system.
ΘΚΠ
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glossotype1869
glossic1871
Romic1877
1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 202 Detailed comparison of Glossic and Romic.
1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion ii, in Everybody's Mag. Nov. 583/1 We'll set her talking; and I'll take it down first in Bell's visible speech; then in broad Romic; and then we'll get her on the phonograph.
1958 Language 34 441 There are included sample passages in 1847 Phonotype, in Pitman's 1876 alphabet, in Glossic, in Palaeotype, and in broad and narrow Romic.
2002 R. W. Bailey in D. Minkova & R. Stockwell Stud. Hist. Eng. Lang. (2003) 467 I have changed Sweet's Broad Romic to IPA.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1877