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

[Scot LaFaive]

>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.

So are you saying that /ng/ is not a separate phoneme and instead is
pronounced /n/ then /g/??

Scot


On 2/11/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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")
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> > 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;
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> > Neal
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> > From: "Tom Zurinskas"
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> > Subject: Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn"
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> >> Here's a good sentence to use that I made up containing all 40 USA
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> >> 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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