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Subject: [OM] Re: OT English as she is spoke OT
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:06:24 -0000
My hat off to you both, 'tis a rare experience indeed to find folk who know
that a diphtong is spoken, not a printer's ligature.

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Piers 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Winsor Crosby
Sent: 16 December 2005 15:43
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT English as she is spoke OT


That is difficult here especially in the nether regions of the US because
many single vowels are pronounced as dipthongs. :-)



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Dec 16, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Jonas Otter wrote:

> I'm not sure if I'm talking through my hat here, but isn't the "I 
> before E" rule about the spelling of words where the "ie" stands for 
> an "ee" sound (as in "Eeek!")? In "weird", the E comes before the I 
> because they represent a diphthong.


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