Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

Nik Taylor wrote:


> Roger Mills wrote:
> > one wanted to exclude Cw/Cy from the
> > possible clusters since they only occured in loans, and not many at
that.)
>
> Cw occurs in many native English words.  E.g., twin, queen, dwarf,
> swine, thwart.  But, I think those might be the only native Cw
> combinations.
>
Oops, you're right. I was think of the native non-occurence of _labial_+w

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