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   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   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"!   
      
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