Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>> Where would you have put it?
>
>
> Yeah, it depends on the rest of the mapping.  But with 24 vowel
> phonemes and only 10 vowel letters, I can see where something's got to
> give.  I just would have gone with something like Y (assuming
> lowercase y is assigned to YEA).
>
> I'm curious about the inclusion of ON, also.  I am, honestly, not
> trying to start YAEPT, but does /Q/ really contrast with both /A/ (AH)
> and /O/ (AWE) in RP?   Are there minimum triples?
>
Actually, /Q/ contrasts with /O:/ and /A:/ (which are long).  Minimal
triple: 'cart', 'caught', 'cot'.  /kA:t/, /kO:t/, /kQt/.

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