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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, July 17, 2003, 22:53
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."