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

Philip Newton wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 3:58 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>> what about /k_n/?  Kin, ken, can, con, kern, keen, cane, Khan, cone, coon,
>> kyne, coin, cairn, corn, Coors .. any improvement over b_t?.  There's no
>> STRUT or MOUTH ("to cunn", obviously the infinitive form of the gerund
>> "cunning"!  And "cown", which strove with "kyne" and "cows" as a third
>> plural form! )  So close with "crown" and "gown"... still no FOOT... no NEAR
>> (although if someone told me that "kiern" were a word in the English of
>> northern Britain/Ireland I would believe them...)
>
> 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"?
Carn the Dons! It is in Australian English a somewhat dated way of
supporting your favorite football team. Obviously derived from "come on"

The sets I've known are b_d and h_d, as in:

bid beed bed bared bad bade bowed bud bard bowed board Boyd booed bird

which misses [bOd] and [bUd], has "bowed" (low before the king) and
"bowed" (his violin) for different vowels, and uses a few past tenses
which aren't necessarily good

hid heed head haired had hayed how'd hud hard howed hoard hood who'd herd

which misses only [hoid], uses "hud" a word I have no idea of the
meaning, and uses both past tenses and forms with clitics. English has
two many vowels and too complicated a possible syllable structure for
this to be easy.

(IMHO they both also have problems in not contrasting AusE:/& &:/, but
if you want C_C I think the only one that does is then "can" (aux.) vs
"can" (n.).)

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