ah/ awe

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

>A vowel is a whole phoneme.

What exactly is a "whole phoneme"? Is it related to "whole nother
phoneme"?

>So we should hear "mah-eat" for "might"?
>That's not happening in m-w.com.

(What does m-w.com know?)

Bethany

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