Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

> Also, for the record, you see Australians *spelling*, under the
> influence of America, <spelled> etc., but as far as I can tell, they
> always mean /spelt/, so they're merely interested in increasing the
> maggelity of English spelling. Either that or they want to pretend that
> <-ed> is a logographic past tense/participle former, and they hate
> <crooked> as much as I do, which looks like /krukt/; /kruk@d/ should be
> spelt <crookered> (even if rhotics wouldn't know what it meant any
> longer, and if anyone pronounces it /krukId/, they might have some
> trouble, too).
My prononciation of the troublesome word varies between /krUkId/,
/krUk@d/ and (perhaps occasionally if I am emphasizing, etc.)
/krUkEd/.
> Tristan.
Jake