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

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 16:06
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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