Re: USAGE: (YAEPT) Re: English, Masculine, Feminine
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 13:43 |
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TM> /ko:t/ = caught, court, quart
MJR> What happened to the /w/ in quart?
TM> I suppose is went to sound heaven, same as the /w/ in 'sword', even if
TM> it was a few centuries different.
Ha! Fair enough. I guess the raising and backing of the vowel puts it
close enough to the glide that it makes sense for them to merge.
> in Cwo:,
What's "Cwo:"? Is that a phonetic spelling? /C/ doesn't seem like the
right symbol there if so, but if not, the : is confusing me . . .
-Mark
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