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[Michael Covarrubias]

Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> Truespel has phonemes ~er, ~air, ~or, which are American English vowels that are influenced by the letter "r", so "r" is attached to the phoneme, but a separate phoneme.  This was explained.
>

Well...maybe I defended your other claim too early. It turns out I don't
understand some of your confusion like I thought I did. Now you *are*
claiming that there are phonemes made up of multiple...phonemes?

I'm out.

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