How NOT to write a teach-yourself grammar

[Randy Alexander]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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,

The vowel in _gate_ (/ei/) and the vowel in _end_ (/E/) are not the
same phoneme.  But _get_ and _end_ do share the same phoneme vowel
/E/.

Is this publication British (where there /E/ and /e/ are much closer
than in the US)?

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