And when I ask my native English speakers how many
vowel sounds are needed to speak English, they invariably answer
"five"! I think it reflects a total lack of awareness of phonetics
in England.
Peter
You could just as well wonder why Modern
English speakers are so dumb -- they have so many vowels and so few vowel
letters.
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