Re: Latin vowel inventory

Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> >I have three syllables in "ruinous", and like to think that I in this mimic
>
> Ditto, though I know many of my fellows in whose speech it has only 2.
It wouldn't astony me if Tolkien said [ru.in.@s] rather than [ru.In.@s] as
most anglophones do, which would make it even closer to having an [uj] in it.

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John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com  jcowan@reutershealth.com
In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath
brought war into Arvernien / with burning and with broken troth.
and Elwing from her fastness dim / then cast her in the waters wide,
but like a mew was swiftly borne, / uplifted o'er the roaring tide.
        --the Earendillinwe