Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:31:00 +0200

Nathan Sanders writes:

> Would you expect Usenet to be an appropriate forum to explain calculus
> to a petulant 5-year-old that insists that 14 is really just 1 plus 4?

But 14 _is_ just 1 plus 4.

What's the total number of phonemes contained in red, lead, and bed? 

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