Re: Not phonetic but ___???

David Zitzelsberger scripsit:

> 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.
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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