Re: Not phonetic but ___???

jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:

>David Zitzelsberger scripsit:
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>>Cook with the foot vowel - one who prepares food professionally, or to
>>prepare food.
>>Cook with the goose vowel - one who is considered strang or exhibits
>>unnatural behavior like inventing languages.
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>The latter is conventionally spelled "kook", just to clarify.  I didn't
>say the distinction had *no* functional load (otherwise [U] and [u] would be
>allophones), merely that it isn't large.  I myself said [r\uf] instead of
>the local form [r\Uf] when growing up, and was teased for it, but certainly
>not misunderstood.  (My wife, zealous for my defense even post facto,
>says that [r\Uf] is what a dog says!)
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In England, [r\Uf] would be understood as 'rough', especially up north.