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silliness with jargon
when you type the word "allophony" for the ninety-seventh time, and the voice in your head pronounces it all a phony and starts giggling, it might be time to work on something else for a while (eh, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon? am i right?).
(forkingchiron --
Main Entry: al·lo·phone
Pronunciation: 'a-l&-"fOn
Function: noun
Etymology: allo- + phone
Date: 1938
: one of two or more variants of the same phoneme [the aspirated /p/ of pin and the unaspirated /p/ of spin are allophones of the phoneme /p/]
-- so "allophony" is the presence of, or the condition of being, allophones.)
ellen_fremedon? am i right?).(for
kingchiron --Main Entry: al·lo·phone
Pronunciation: 'a-l&-"fOn
Function: noun
Etymology: allo- + phone
Date: 1938
: one of two or more variants of the same phoneme [the aspirated /p/ of pin and the unaspirated /p/ of spin are allophones of the phoneme /p/]
-- so "allophony" is the presence of, or the condition of being, allophones.)