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Re: Sorry, no PDP (or any other) speech recognition yet

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1989 14:37
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landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
-lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
->the diphthong of "new" is appreciably longer than that of "nu".
-
-Huh?  There *IS* *NO* dipthong in "new" or "nu", in any dialect of English
-that I know.  Did you perhaps just mean vowel?

Be careful about making sweeping generalisations like this ... watch 
"The Story of English" on TV and you will probably realise that to make
almost any comment about English is asking for trouble!

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your 
 philosophy Horatio ..." (probable misquote!)

Matt.

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Subject: Re: Sorry, no PDP (or any other) speech recognition yet
Keywords: dipthong
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