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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...
Date: 26 Jul 2024 21:12:15 GMT
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>And this "uw" is what some authors write as [ʊu]! Both
>notations express that the first part is more open than the
>second part, they just differ in whether the author sees the
>first part to be more open than the cardinal [u] or the 
>second part to be closer than a cardinal [u] . . .

  But why don't we let Peter explain?

|No, [U] is the not-quite-high rounded back lax one in "book," and [u] is
|the high rounded back tense one in "boon."
|
|/u/  = [U]
|/uw/ = [u]
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Peter T. Daniels on 2003-08-12 03:36:20+00:00 in alt.usage.english, 
Subject: viral words

  It's kind of trippy how the /phonemic/ spelling "uw" here actually
  nails the diphthong better than its supposed /phonetic/ twin "u"!