Re: YAEPT: Enuf is Enuf: Some Peepl Thru with Dificult Spelingz

On 7/7/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> My SAE (Midwest dept.) can count 14-16 vocalic nuclei, depending...
> i I e E & (@,V) u U o O (A~a), ay, aw, oy= 14 + yu makes 15??
> (Mark: you say 19-- what have I neglected?
The V+r pairs: FORCE=NORTH, LETTER=NURSE, NEAR, SQUARE, START.  The
page I linked includes AR as "a sound", from which I infer that they
don't consider them sequences of some-otherwise-accounted-for-vowel +
/r/.

Then there's CURE, which for me is merged with LETTER/NURSE (apart
from the leading /j/), but I don't think that's generally true even in
GAE.

Our lists differ in more than the number, though, given that I have no
O (it's merged in with [a,A]).

> But they're talking about _spelling_, so all bets are off.
Well, yes, but they're trying to "fix" spelling so it matches speech.
The 42 number is their count of *spoken* sounds, which they identify
400 different ways of spelling.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>