in the english language, are there any letters of the alphabet which _always_ correspond to the same phone? and if so, which ones?
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clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 08:08:05 JST clarity flowers -
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clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 08:54:15 JST clarity flowers @apophis I'm counting digraphs since I'm thinking in terms of “difficulty for new language learners" and digraphs and not immediately intuitive coming from languages that don't have them. For B, there's “dumb”/“limb" (which have the b pronounced in some accents but not in many). So yeah, maybe just “m" and “v".
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🐛 (apophis@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 08:54:17 JST 🐛 @clarity i think all the different ways to pronounce t are just one phoneme in english if you discount all digraphs
definitely, if you discount digraphs: b, p, k
if you count digraphs, i think b and k as long as you discount loanwords still generally considered not-(modern-)English (bh, kh) no wait there's knight so just b
m and v?
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