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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Chain Shift (was Tendency of Inflections to Disappear)
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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 12:52:12 -0500
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In article <32075346.D14@eurocontrol.fr>, Peter Hullah
<Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:

> Aaron J. Dinkin wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm horrified, but then I'm also horrified when a dictionary says
> > that "paw" and "lore" have the same vowel.
> 
> Where I come from "law" and "lore" are exact homophones!

Nu? Where I come from they only have one phoneme in common. So what?

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

