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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: French vowels
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:56:07 GMT
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Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars,
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@pi.net> says:

: Now that we're on the subject of French.  While checking my dictionary
: for the aspiratedness of 'he'ros', I realized that the phonetic
: transcription used by my dictionary listed a whopping 30 different
: vowel sounds for French:

: a a: A A: a~ a~: E E: e @ e~ e~: i i: O O: o o: o~ o~: % %: oe oe: u
: u: y and y:

Wow.  I've never seen length marked in a French dictionary.
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