spelling that exclamation of disgust

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:19 AM -0500 12/27/03, Dale Coye wrote:
>Abot the phoneme: I was half-jokingly speculating about the possibility of
>analyzing this as a vowel diphthong  /iu/, that would take its place beside
>/ou/, /au/, and /Uu/.
>

I guess we all have this as a rising diphthong (as in "beauty"), but
not as a falling one.  Or vice versa--I can never remember which is
which.  The one in "eeyuw" or whatever is definitely (for me)
bisyllabic; that distinguishes it from the others above.

larry