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Re: USAGE: di"f"thong (was: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht..)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Sunday, May 28, 2006, 18:37
On 5/28/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> (You may have also noticed me using > spellings such as "laff" or "enuff", which I hope everyone can agree to be > improvements.)
Not for people with "broad A" -- assuming the first word is "laugh", I pronounce it "lahf" rather than "laff". Perhaps a bit like "Spaß", which is still spelled that way after the German spelling reform but under the new rules means that the vowel is unambiguously long -- for those speakers of the standard dialect but who nevertheless have a short vowel in that word, that word is now no longer spelled phonemically. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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