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Article #2593Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
From: Ryan Daum
Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 01:45
Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 01:45
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btiffany@pbs.org writes: > 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 Easy! Just include all the different ways of saying vowel combinations... For example, the "au" combination is not pronounced "a-u" ... it's a single sound therefore it's a seperate vowel? ___________________________________________ -=- arktik@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca -=- |||---------------------------------------||| ||| Ryan Daum -- Professional Human ||| |||---------------------------------------||| -=- -=-
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!ersys!arktik From: arktik@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Ryan Daum) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,soc.culture.german Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ] Message-ID: <RP7i32w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> Date: 26 May 91 01:45:02 GMT References: <1991May22.141034.12747@pbs.org> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 32