Re: more English orthography

Nik Tailor wrote:

>Well, would you at least agree that [S] and [s] are *on the surface*
>seperate phonemes, but *underlyingly* (I just love that construction)
>are the same phoneme?
Different use of phoneme from what I'm used to, but sure.  I can see your
point
there.

>The bit about using [I] and [E] in foreign words is interesting.  I'd
>never heard about that.  Do you know if that's common?
I've never heard it reported by anybody else, and I've only done that kind of
work with one person, so I really don't know.  I haven't noticed it in any
other speakers, but I usually don't pay that close attention: I'm too busy
trying to figure out what the words mean to worry about subtle pronunciation
differences.

Marcus