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Article #2558Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
From: btiffany
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:10
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:10
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In article <TMB.91May22102757@volterra.ai.mit.edu>, tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: > In any case, I believe most dialects of English already have more > vowels than any of the languages you mention (certainly more than > Spanish). English has somewhere around 14 vowels. FOURTEEN? Well, when I was knee high from the floor in school they taught me only FIVE: A E I O and U! It was mentioned that sometimes Y can act like a vowel, but it is still a consonant. So at most you might say English has 5.5 vowels. But 14?? Where did you come up with such a figure? -- Bruce Tiffany btiffany@pbs.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!pbs.org!btiffany From: btiffany@pbs.org Newsgroups: comp.fonts,soc.culture.german Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ] Message-ID: <1991May22.141034.12747@pbs.org> Date: 22 May 91 18:10:34 GMT References: <1991Apr24.152455.22367@engage.enet.dec.com> <TMB.91May22102757@volterra.ai.mit.edu> Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA Lines: 13