Nobody's Perfect Dept.

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

<<>This is not a good definition.  I've never seen one with "may" in it.
That

>also means it "may not" as well.  And if it does both, why mentioin it.

>Makes no sense.-- Tom Zurinskas >>

 

Well, maybe “can” would have been better, but consider the undoubted phoneme
/t/.  It makes a difference in meaning between “rap” and “rapt”, but whether
one pronounces “often” as <offn> or <off-ten> makes no difference in
meaning.

 

Seán Fitzpatrick
Stupidity should be painful
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