Re: USAGE: di"f"thong (was: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht..)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 29, 2006, 2:16 |
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On 29/05/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> 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".
That was my first reaction, but there's still words like "path" and
"after" and "fast" and although I can't think of one OTTOMH that ends
in -aff, unless we plan on creating two spellings for a fairly large
collection of words, "laff" is the most sensible spelling.
--
Tristan.
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