Mark P. Line wrote:
>Paul Bennett said:
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>>I remember reading somewhere that English has 14 vowels (presumably
>>including diphthongs), but that every dialect collapses at least two of
>>them together.
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>>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/...
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>You might consider the possibility that some of your examples contain an /r/.
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Not in my English. All of those have no /r/ at all.