Re: þe getisbyrg adres

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:58:32 +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:21, Philip Newton wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:23:54 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson
>> <bpj@...> wrote:
>>> Hence also the preserved distinction between the
>>> THOUGHT and LOT vowels, and the merging of FATHER with TRAP
>>> rather than LOT! :)
>>
>> Where did you get the words THOUGHT, LOT, FATHER, TRAP from? Is
>> there
>> a sort of standardised set of words to illustrate certain vowels?
>>
>> For example, the merger of "THOUGHT" with "LOT" I've usually heard
>> described as the "caught-cot merger", rather than "thought-lot", for
>> example.
>>
>> Or did you make up the example words yourself?
>
> AFAICT, they're just made up.
>
See http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~anth383/lexicalsets.html

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