Re: USAGE: di"f"thong (was: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht..)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 28, 2006, 18:37 |
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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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