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

On 7/11/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> Perhaps it depends on which sounds you consider as allophones of which
> phonemes :)
OK, but making /u/ and /V/ allophones of one phoneme makes no
distinction between a wide variety of pairs like "bub"/"boob",
"cut"/"coot", "dud"/"dude", "FUD"/"food", "gun"/"goon", "hup"/"hoop",
"lust"/"loosed", "mutt"/"moot", "knucks"/"nukes", "run"/"rune",
"sup"/"soup", "tut"/"toot" . . .

And it makes little sense to argue that [V] (or whatever) is sometimes
its own phoneme and other times an allophone of a different one...
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>