Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

John Cowan wrote:

> No American dialect AFAIK has anything like this: "school" and
> "moon" have exactly the same vowel, [u].
I didn't say otherwise.

What I said was that I can't see the difference between Australian and
foreign /u/.

I'm _very_ confused about these sounds! I'm sure I'm getting something
totally wrong because it really isn't coming together.

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