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Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Friday, January 4, 2002, 0:45
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Pavel Iosad quoted someone, saying:

> > --Not rare to linguistics, but rare to my language. > > Its only real use was in the reflexive affix. Do you > > know of any sounds that appear only five times in a > > language? So I went with /h/.
Australian English has one word with /Q:/ in it: `gone'. Dictionaries that use the IPA, too scared to admit long-short distinctions when they're there, give the pronounciation as /gOn/, but it by no means rhymes with either `born' or `tonne'. And it's not going out of use. Tristan