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

On Dec 12, 2007 11:08 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:

> Also no START, though "carn" looks as if it could be a morpheme --
> perhaps a loan-word for "flesh" to server as the base of "carnal"?

And "Carnival".

Also no THOUGHT (e.g. *cawn -- something crow-related, perhaps?), but
> NORTH fills its place for non-rhotics such as myself.

And for some rhotics, such as myself, *cawn would be indistinguishable from
"con"...

Hm.  Is there a difference in any lects you know of between the
pronunciations of "con" (confidence game) and "conn" (direct a vessel at
sea)?

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>