Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Jesse Bangs wrote:
> > But verbs--ho, boy, English verbs are about the easiest you'll ever see.
>
> [...] and the -s form has only a few
> verbs with that irregular (do, be, and have, I think that's it).
Don't forget <says>.  It's orthographically regular, but is phonetically
[sEz], rather than the predicted *[seIz].  I've noticed this one trips
up a lot of nonnative English speakers.  (This wouldn't be a problem
if /E/ and /e/ were not phonemically distinct.)

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