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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, July 7, 2006, 19:52
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. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>