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

[Mark Mandel]

(Sigh.) Save your breath ... fingers ... whatever, Ron. He's hopeless.

Mark Mandel


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:

> Nonsense. Elementary contrary evidence is found in scores of minimal
> pairs,=20
> e.g., "thin" and "thing."
> Allophones by definition do not contrast in minimal pairs.
>
> In a message dated 2/13/09 2:51:03 PM, truespel at HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > The front or velar n and back or alveolar n are just allophones of one=20
> > another.=A0
>

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