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From: david@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth)
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Subject: Re: Sorry, no PDP (or any other) speech recognition yet
Keywords: dipthong
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landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
-lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
->the diphthong of "new" is appreciably longer than that of "nu".
-
-Huh?  There *IS* *NO* dipthong in "new" or "nu", in any dialect of English
-that I know.  Did you perhaps just mean vowel?

Sorry, Howard, but just because `new' is not pronounced with a dipthong
in Mountain View doesn't mean it never is.  In fact, the pronunciation
given in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1987, shows `new'
pronouned with a dipthong.

Anyway, its just being used as an example.  Lighten up.