Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

And this "uw" is what some authors write as [ʊu]! Both
notations express that the first part is more open than the
second part, they just differ in whether the author sees the
first part to be more open than the cardinal [u] or the
second part to be closer than a cardinal [u] . . .

  But why don't we let Peter explain?

|No, [U] is the not-quite-high rounded back lax one in "book," and [u] is
|the high rounded back tense one in "boon."
|
|/u/  = [U]
|/uw/ = [u]
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Peter T. Daniels on 2003-08-12 03:36:20+00:00 in alt.usage.english,
Subject: viral words

  It's kind of trippy how the /phonemic/ spelling "uw" here actually
  nails the diphthong better than its supposed /phonetic/ twin "u"!