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

[Paul Johnston]

He's spent too long in Longg Island--or is it the English West Midlands.

Paul
On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Scot LaFaive 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
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> goes on with other phonemes so it's not biggie.
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> So are you saying that /ng/ is not a separate phoneme and instead is
> pronounced /n/ then /g/??
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> Scot
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> On 2/11/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn?
>> "warn" >
>>              "worn")
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>> Your looking for the "ng" phoneme.  That's treated in truespel as
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>> and g.  Granted the n is velar rather than alveolar, but that kind
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>> 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;
>> it's
>>> on the tip of my tongue.
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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
>> English
>>>> phonemes.
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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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