--- Wally Kairuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> it is very important that you remember that this is
> purely a descriptive
> phonetics project -- that is, no judgment of any
> kind is involved. i would
> like to put a few theories to the test and see where
> the isophonemic lines
> [the lines that join points where people pronounce
> similarly] really go
> through. 

If you don't already have it, I'd highly recommend
David Crystal's "Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English
Language".  It's a great read and deals with a lot of
this kind of stuff.
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