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Re: French spelling scheme

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 15:29
En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 5/2/01 10:18:54 PM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes: > > << Actually, there is one pair of words where the two sounds are > > clearly phonemic: _thy_ /Daj/ ~ _thigh_ /Taj/. >> > > Actually, there are two: "either" [iDr] and "ether" [iTr]. :) > > -David. >
Except that this one doesn't work for people who pronounce [&jDr=] instead of [iDr=], like I was taught (though I say [ajDr=], with my French accent :) ) :). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr