[Ads-l] Could "check-ed" = r-less "checkered"?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 25 00:29:55 UTC 2017
Could "stripe-ed" = r-less "stripered"?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:56 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Monosyllabic <checked> [chekt]: <checked tone> (in Chinese phonetics,
> indicating the shortened tone in a syllable closed by unreleased p, t, k,
> or glottal stop); <checked syllable>.
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