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Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2007, 22:42
Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Right. Not all Americans have the LOT/THOUGHT merger, not even those who > have the PALM/LOT merger. This is why there are so dadgum many lexical sets > in Wells's list; i'm almost certain that no single dialect distinguishes all > of them.
There's Americans without the PALM/LOT merger? -- Tristan. (And yes, that sentence *is* grammatically correct, even if your English teacher won't admit it.)

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