Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 15:59 |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:30:58PM +0100, Ian Spackman wrote:
> >I didn't think /x/ occurred in any English words, though, which would
> >make it not an English phoneme. It's a common enough sound that most
> >English speakers have heard it, but not in native words.
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> You don't consider loch an English word? (To take the most obvious
> example.)
Ah, well, no, I don't. Or didn't. I thought "loch" was Scots Gaelic, not
Scots English. If it's Scots English, then I withdraw my objection to the
inclusion of /x/ as an English phoneme. :)
-Mark
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