Communication (Sound) same species on various topics of mutual interest (approach) Homo Loquents

already know, Of plough and cough and through and dough’. Those four
words, which we might expect to rhyme on the basis of the spelling, in
fact end in four quite different vowels, and cough has a final consonant
too. On the other hand, see, sea, people, amoeba and fiend have the
same long [i] vowel, but five different spellings.
an IPA transcription will not tell you what a
bampot is, or
glaur, or a beagie, if you don’t know.
But at least
you
have
the comfort of knowing
how
the
natives
pronounce it.
the IPA supplies alternative symbols
in
cases where speakers will be quite sure
they are hearing the same thing; and
this is not a universal limitation of
human ears, but rather varies from
language to language.
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