Re: Elvish ideas ...
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 23:18 |
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>Perhaps I'm wrong then... *shrugs* it just feels long to me... he says in
>his dialect the vowel in suit is shorter than in soon, but when I say them
>the u vowels sound the same in suit and soon, in both length and quality.
For me, they're [sut] and [su:n], but for my parents, they were [sjuUt] and
[suUn], plus "suit" and "suite" were homonyms.
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