Re: UVW (was: Lingo)

From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
>> I like that spelling :)) . In fact, I like very much the spelling |ae|. It
>> appears quite often in Maggel :)) (|ea| too, which often marks the
diphtongue
>> [&a] :))) ).
>
>Looks like the Old English <ea>. (And it's 'diphthong', from 'phthong'.)
It is 'diphtongue' in French though, I believe.   Of course for everyone's
sake it ought to be spelled with both <ph> and <th> as half the people say
/dIftAN/, the other half say /dIpTAN/, and the third half say /dIfTAN/.
(subst /O/ for /A/ as per your idiolect)


    *Muke!
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