Re: (YAEPT?) Pattern exemplifying as many vowel phonemes as possible?

On Dec 12, 2007 3:58 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> What, no Boyts out your way?
Nope, never heard of one.

> what about /k_n/?  Kin, ken, can, con, kern, keen, cane, Khan, cone, coon,
> kyne, coin, cairn, corn, Coors .. any improvement over b_t?.
That's not bad, and it certainly covers a few that /b_t/ lacks (e.g. SQUARE).

> There's no
> STRUT or MOUTH ("to cunn", obviously the infinitive form of the gerund
> "cunning"!
Obviously!

>  And "cown", which strove with "kyne" and "cows" as a third
> plural form! )
It did? I wouldn't be surprised.

> still no FOOT...
unless you count -kun, which some anime-loving people have adopted
into their 'lect of Englisch along with -chan.

(At least, I *presume* it's got FOOT -- I've never heard it spoken.)

> no NEAR
> (although if someone told me that "kiern" were a word in the English of
> northern Britain/Ireland I would believe them...)
So would I. It certainly looks very plausible.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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