"awe" phoneme has disappeared

[V]

Tom,

Had you lived in the 14th century, what would you have done to stop the
great vowel shift? Today's "awe"  /ɔ/ was /ɑʊ/ then. Why can't you change
your "awe" to  /ɑʊ/ ?

Pedro V



On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> It finally happened.  The phoneme "awe" (backward c in IPA) has
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>  from US English tutorials.
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> http://tinyurl.com/6vfvuvs
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> The same phonetic symbol is given for "pot" "walk" and "clock" where each
> t=
> ake the "ah" ~aa sound.  There is no symbol for the "awe" ~au sound.  bye
> b=
> ye.
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> Please help save the "awe" phoneme=2C before it's too late.
>
> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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