Paul Bennett said:
> I remember reading somewhere that English has 14 vowels (presumably
> including diphthongs), but that every dialect collapses at least two of
> them together.
>
> Well, I decided to measure my own lect, and got some surprising results. I
> have at least 17 vowels that I can think of, all of which can appear
> between /h/ and /d/...
You might consider the possibility that some of your examples contain an /r/.
> /hid/ heed
> /hId/ hid
> /hed/ head
> /hEd/ haired
> /had/ had
> /hAd/ hard
> /hVd/ HUD - a bit of a cheat, since it's a acronym
> /hOd/ hoard (or whored)
> /h@U)d/ hoed (as in the garden tool)
> /hUd/ hood
> /hud/ who'd
> /h3d/ heard
> /hI@)d/ *heared (also seen in "beard")
> /hAj)d/ hide
> /hAj@))d/ hired
> /hej)d/ heyed (past of "to exclaim 'hey'")
> /hOj)d/ *hoyed (putative past of "to exclaim 'hoy'", which is a real
> exclamation, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it verbed).
-- Mark