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From: cindy@solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
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Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
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In-Reply-To: btiffany@pbs.org's message of 22 May 91 18:10:34 GMT

bruce: calm down... remember each vowel letter in english on its own comes
in two varieties, long and short.  that makes ten right there.  possibly the
other 4 are diphthong sounds?  not sure, but 14 isn't all that high if you
remember we're talking about -sounds-, not spelling.

i heard somewhere that english actually has 44 sounds.  the speaker didnt
mention anything about which brand of english he was talking about, though.
and i've always been too lazy to count the number of sounds on charts in
linguistics books.  (memorize them, yes; count them, no.)

-cindy kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 trondheim, norway