YAEPT:Re: Phonological musings (was: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton")

Andreas Johansson wrote:

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>PS A similar oddity is his use of "were" as an example of Elvish 'e', which
>otherwise seem to be monophthongal - the RPoid English I learnt has [we@] for
>"were". I suppose Tolkien's 'lect differed here; dialectal variation 'tween
>[we:] and [we@] is, of course, easily believable.
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Sorry, but no dialect I'm aware of has [we@] for 'were'.  'where', yes,
but not 'were'.  'Were' is [w3:], IME

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