Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

Paul Bennett wrote:

> Be aware my IPA transcription is untutored, and may be iffy. However, I
> need to study the vowels of English if I'm ever to get this script
> underway. It's definitely going to be onset/peak/coda and not
> onset/peak+coda, as I originally planned. One glyph for each phoneme of
> English, as dialect-agnostic as possible.
The only way to reasonably achieve this is to reconstruct English
pronunciation before The Great Divide, i.e. the common ancestor of
all modern dialects somewhen in the early 17th century, plus catering
for major splits that have occurred somewhere since then.  It is not
actually as hard as it may seem, since standard orthography reflects
a state much closer to The Great Divide, though not identical.
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/BP 8^)
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