Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:36:48 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> 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?

Twelve (three in each of the four words). 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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