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

[Tom Zurinskas]

Your looking for the "ng" phoneme.  That's treated in truespel as merely n and g.  Granted the n is velar rather than alveolar, but that kind of thing goes on with other phonemes so it's not biggie.  As mentioned before, the real biggie is the vowel sound before the velar n.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com













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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:46:17 -0500
> From: nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
> Subject: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn")
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Neal Whitman
> Subject: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn")
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> I think a phoneme is missing. Am I wrong? Dang, I know it's something; it's
> on the tip of my tongue.
>
> Neal
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Zurinskas"
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn"
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>
>> Here's a good sentence to use that I made up containing all 40 USA English
>> phonemes.
>>
>> That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I
>> shout, for he's foiled you again.
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