Re: Wow! It's a Yogh!


<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Neeraj Mathur wrote:
>> <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The list "were won win wee wool woo wet wane wan wine woe war wow"
>> > seems to give an inventory of vowels and diphthongs after w. No [A:].
>> > Whether [@] occurs after [w] is questionable.
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>> What about 'whack', in those dialects that wouldn't make it voiceless?
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> [w&k], not [w@k] or [wAk], as far as I've heard.

Of course; sorry, I misinterpreted the symbols. (Where have you heard
'whack' pronounced [wAk]? That's pretty strange! But that reminds me, does
your list not omit the vowel of 'walk'?)

Neeraj Mathur


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