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

Ian Spackman wrote:
> > > Roger Mills wrote:
> >Oops, you're right. I was think of the native non-occurence of _labial_+w
>
> We seem to have one now (unless it's a borrowing from a source I don't
> know): fwoah.
>
That seems not to have made it to this side of the pond, or at least not
within my hearing....  What's it mean?

Of course, there's also Dorothy Parker's famous review of some book or
other:  "Constant weader fwowed up."