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On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> And how does this strange language called English fits into your rules
> and (no) special cases scheme?
>
> http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/3989/Did-you-know-that-ough-can-be-pronounced-TEN-DIFFERENT-WAYS

I learned six, which is no more than there are for the simple vowel
'a' (at least, in British English; American English has a few less
sounds for 'a'). Consider "cat", "bay", "car" (that's the three most
common sounds), "watch", "water", "parent" (these three are less
common, and American English often folds them into the other three).
Now have a look at Norwegian, where the fifth of those sounds
("water") is spelled with a ring above, eg "La den gå" - and the sixth
is (I think) more often spelled with a slashed O - "Den kraften jeg
skjulte før". Similarly in Swedish: "Slå dig loss, slå dig fri" is
pronounced "Slaw di loss, slaw di free". Or let's look at another of
English's oddities. Put a t and an h together, and you get a
completely different sound... two different sounds, in fact, voiced or
unvoiced. Icelandic uses thorn instead: "Þetta er nóg" is pronounced
(roughly) "Thetta air know". And the whole notion of putting a dot on
a lower-case i and not putting one on upper-case I is pretty
illogical, but Turkish, as I mentioned in the previous post, uses the
dots to distinguish between two pronunciations of the vowel, hence
"aldırma" which would sound somewhat different with a dot on the i.

(You may be able to see a theme in my example texts, but I figured
it's time to see what I can do with full Unicode support. The cold
looks of disapproval never bothered me, anyway.)

ChrisA

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Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 01:01 +1100
  Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 09:15 -0800
    Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 09:54 -0800
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 08:08 +1100
        Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-03 21:01 +1100
          Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 21:16 +1100
          Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-03 10:38 +0000
            Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 09:53 -0800
              Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-03 18:35 +0000
                OT Vernacular and empire building [was Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-05 00:19 +1100
                Re: OT Vernacular and empire building [was Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files] Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 15:22 -0800
              Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-01-08 13:10 +0000
                Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 07:33 -0800
                Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-08 19:58 +0200
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 15:52 -0800
    Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-03 08:09 +1100
      Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-03 15:18 +1300

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