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In article <1991May27.050459.24464@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
| My latest linguistics class's textbook specifies twelve basic vowels for
| English (plus three diphthongs and no less than thirty consonants, many
| of which are featured versions of basic IPA ones and not phonemes)
| 
| English vowels: (sorry, I can't type the IPA on this keyboard. :-))
| bEEt
| bAIt
This sounds like a diphthong to me (A-EE).
| bOOt 
| bOAt
And so does this. (unstressed A-OO).
| bAt
| bUt
| sofA   (the schwa -- it's different from "bUt" in that it's unstressed)
| bIt
| bEt
| fOOt
| bOUGHt
| pOt
| 
| as well as diphthongs, the number of which will vary depending on your
| reference.  My two most recent linguistics/phonetics textbooks have
| specified five and three.  (bIte, bOY, and bOUt are in the one I have
| handy.)

Perhaps the two I highlighted make up the five?

Admittedly I am thinking of English English, not American English.

Tony.
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