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Why no mips?

Monosyllabic possibilities in English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2012

Michael Bulley
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This article is about some very short words: the permutations for monosyllables in common use in standard British English having the phonetic pattern: single consonant + short vowel + single consonant. It is similar, therefore, to my article ‘Consonantal beginnings’ (ET80), in which I looked at what pairs of consonantal sounds could be found at the beginnings of English words. The pronunciation is to be taken as that given in the OED for British English.

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English Today , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 35 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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