Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ] Message-ID: <21880@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 24 May 91 12:35:09 GMT References: <1991Apr24.152455.22367@engage.enet.dec.com> <1991May22.141034.12747@pbs.org> <9864@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991May23.083815.12755@pbs.org> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 In article <1991May23.083815.12755@pbs.org> btiffany@pbs.org writes: > > OK, five vowels and 14 vowel sounds. > > But if you're talking about the sounds vowels make, rather than the vowels > themselves, I can't believe there are only 14. There must be many, many more. > Maybe Peter Jennings uses only 14, but if you go to Maine... Differences in pronunciation does not neccessarily expand the the number of vowels from a linguistic viewpoint. Though the sounds may differ, the number does not change much, nor to they create additional words nor consistant distinctions between homonyns. There are exceptions... > But there are 5 vowels. :-) Sorry, where I come from, they taught the aeiou and sometimes y and w rule. 8-) -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)