Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Almaran Dungeonmaster wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > 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
>
> Maybe something like "de-ionized" which is /dIaI@naIst/ in my pronounciation
> (with /aI/ a diphtong). You're always stuck with intervocalic w's and j's of
> course.
There's still a syllable gap: /di:.ai@.naizd/. Hmm... seems there's a VV
in that, though.

Tristan

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