All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")

[Mark Mandel]

Feh. When earlier I wrote

> Da*ng*it, you misled me!  You had me looki*ng* for apicals.

I was replying to Neal Whitman's comment:

> I think a phoneme is missing. Am I wrong? Dang, I know it's something; it's
> on the tip of my tongue.

I inferred apicals from "tip of my tongue", when he was pointing with
the BACK of his tongue, and message, to the velar nasal.

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