Phonemic vowel length

Thu Oct 5 14:36:48 UTC 2006

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  From the old saying I invented that goes, "Illiteracy today, Inglish tomorrow."

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Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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That would be UK pronunciation, no? Are you from UK?

Tom Z

>From: Paul Johnston

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>Because the vowel in "English" is the same phoneme as that in "pit"
>thanks to a 13th c. (or so) rule that raised all /E/ (as in pet)
>before "eng". The pronunciation was not reflected in spelling,
>unlike in the word "wing" which went through the same exact change.
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>Paul Johnston
>On Oct 4, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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> > Why the spelling "Inglish"?
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> > Tom Z
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> >> From: Jonathan Lighter
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> >> Future Inglish Alert:
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