Talk:Allography
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[edit] _forecastle_?!
It seems to me that any attempt to make a list of something like "every English spelling of /k/" is doomed to drown and founder in questions of analysis of the phoneme-grapheme alignments in particular words. So let me take the first gulp of seawater by objecting to forecastle. It seems bizarre to group the re with the c here; seemingly much saner is to group the e with the o (oCe to spell a single sound /o/ is unquestionably a common allograph) and to take the r as silent (or for the nonrhotics, lump it in with the o and e). Maybe on thinner ice I'd call this a silent a too, not one that goes with the c.
Is the list here sourced from somewhere with a reason for the analysis reca = /k/? 4pq1injbok (talk) 06:05, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
