--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> Precisely. That's what I meant by "short vowel" and
> "these
> situations"; |ethe| surely produces /D/ but not /E/.
> (Here, at least,
> it would have the added disadvantage that it could
> be analysed as a
> foreign or archaic form, and pronounced as a
> disyllable. And that
> it's a neologism, whereas at least some people
> already use |edh|.)
Problem with <edh> is it's at least as likely to
generate /d/ as /D/. Probably more. I can't think of a
single word with <dh>=/D/ (apart from your <edh>).
--
Tristan.
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