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

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"?

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

But it shows prospects. Thanks!

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

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