-> To get the /f/ phoneme from , the has to be at the end of the word (enouGH, touGH, etc - I defy you to find me an example in English where the /f/ phoneme from the letters occurs anywhere else in a word).
-> the ONLY word in English where represents the phoneme /ɪ/ (as in fish) is in the word women. For example, where have you ever seen the alternative spelling, 'swomming' for 'swimming'?
-> as with the , the /ʃ/ phoneme ( for all you laypeople who don't understand the IPA) represented by depends on the placement of the letters. to represent /ʃ/ must be in the middle of the word. I don't know about you, but I've not seen 'shop' spelt 'tiop' anywhere...
for more on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Technically incorrect. Here's why:
ReplyDelete-> To get the /f/ phoneme from , the has to be at the end of the word (enouGH, touGH, etc - I defy you to find me an example in English where the /f/ phoneme from the letters occurs anywhere else in a word).
-> the ONLY word in English where represents the phoneme /ɪ/ (as in fish) is in the word women. For example, where have you ever seen the alternative spelling, 'swomming' for 'swimming'?
-> as with the , the /ʃ/ phoneme ( for all you laypeople who don't understand the IPA) represented by depends on the placement of the letters. to represent /ʃ/ must be in the middle of the word. I don't know about you, but I've not seen 'shop' spelt 'tiop' anywhere...
for more on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
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You are such a pedant!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am now wracking my brains for another word like "women"...
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and you said it wasn't displaying properly... gobbledegook indeed...
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and hey, I didn't even start on the fact that there's only 26 letters in our alphabet, but there are over 50 phonemes in English... :D xx
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