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.
Maarten