How NOT to write a teach-yourself grammar

[Wilson Gray]

"The syllabic segment /e/, a front mid vowel, is pronounced similarly
to ,,, English _e_ as in _end_."


As in "*end*"?! So, it's a nasalized, lax, high front vowel. Probably
not really what the authors int[I]nd. And it's not possible to tell
whether they really have in mind "... as in _gate_ or "... as in
_get_." More likely the latter. But,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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