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Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
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Date: 22 May 91 18:10:34 GMT
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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