From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61182
Date: 2008-11-01
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
It obviously despite your confusion of arbitrary conventions with rules.
By your logic, English /h/ would be a vowel because some speakers say "an
history".
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Absurd,
People who say an (h)istory just have no h here in this word.
The fact English has <a ewe> means <ewe> /ju(w)/ starts with a consonant
from the point of view of the English language.
but this is not the case in French as yeux "eyes" has les Z-yeux implying
that yeux is /iö/ not **/jö/.
And I'm afraid you are confusing orthography with real speech.
Arnaud