[Spellyans] Front unrounded vowels, was: The quantity system

[Owen Cook]

And the circumflex would be useful for helping make that distinction clear.

By the bye, is there any evidence for diphthongization in 'devry'?
Gendall's unpublished dictionary mentions only /i:/. I would have
expected diphthongization here.

~~Owen

2008/6/24 Craig Weatherhill <weatherhill at freenet.co.uk>:
> Yes, when stressed as it is in these examples.  Obviously, this would
> not apply to final -y in words such as <gwary>.
>
> Craig