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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 13:07
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@...>