Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 3:38 |
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> > What word has VVV? or VV, for that matter, unless diphthongs are being
> > counted as containing two seperate elements?
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> For VV I can think of words like "going". There's a few triphthongs in
> at least some dialects, like, I say /fajr=/ for "fire". I can't think
> of VVV tho, unless you count diphthongs as two vowels
But `going' is two syllables. So, I would say, is /fai.@/ (even if the
next word begins in a vowel: /fai.@.r{ut/ (`fire out'), although I don't
know about your dialect, of course.
Tristan
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