RE: SUO: English language (fwd) OUCH!
> . Actually, I was thinking of the ambiguities under SR1 (as I
>recalled it) of tort vs taut vs taught. I guess if we can understand them
>when spoken, we must be able to understand it when all are written as
>"tort".
Sniff. Where *I* come from, the *better* class of people would
pronounce those words quite distinctly from each other. Fonetikaly,
thay wud sownd summat lyk this: tawrt, tot, tawt.
The difference between >taut< and >taught< is a bit tricky to render,
I concede. About the best way to describe it is that >taut< is what
'taught' would sound like if said when one's throat is, well, taut.
Pat
Pee Ess. No mor from me to SUO on fonetiks.
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