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

[Russ McClay]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> Your error Gordon.  I've said velar is back and alveolar is front.

Actually, Tom, you wrote previously in this thread:

"The front or velar n and back or alveolar n are just allophones of one
another."

Perhaps I'm missing something, like my delete key.

-r

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