Re: USAGE: Question about Welsh.
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 25, 2004, 7:20 |
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Philip Newton wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:41:18 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>Ray Brown wrote:
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>>>In words of one syllable, vowels are short:
>>>(a) when they stand alone in words of just one vowel;
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>>You mean like 'i' and 'o', right?
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>I think he meant "words in which the number of vowels is one" and not
>"words consisting solely of one letter, which is a vowel".
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>So "pob", for example, would count.
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Hmm. That can't be right. He's talking about monosyllabic words all
the way through, and surely the vast majority of those are monopthongal.
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