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Maybe plain English but certainly not used in daily language. If I ever say it again I think I'm gong to pronounce it Fo neems. It flows better and makes more phonetic sense. Pho is fo (long o), phone is fon (long o) but it needs the e on the end. In order for it to be eems you need the e that's after the n which means it can't be Fone and also eems it has to be Fo neems. So may be standard English orthography but fone eems just doesn't sound right to me. But I have to say, if nemes was a word I would tend to pronounce it with a short e but that's just me.
Hmmm, finally looked up phonemes in the dictionary and it is pronounced Fo neems, not fone eems! But I guess Webster could be mistaken.
I wasn't writing orthography, I was doing my best to give you what it sounds like when it's spoken ...
of course it depends on where you put the emphasis on the syllables, but with equal stress on the syllables pronouncing it fo neems, you will sound like someone who can read English but isn't a native speaker .. or who is unfamiliar with the field ... the nasal sound is usually included in the stressed first syllable (breath pulse)
back when, I used to write continuity for radio, it was necessary at times to use awkward spellings to assist the news/ad readers to pronounce some words/names correctly
these days I am sure the sports announcers have something like that on their teleprompters, when talking about players with names like Nnamdi Assomughi (and the like)
LOL, native speaker, breath pulse? WTH Geez you guys. Well, ok whatever you say. All I know is what Webster says and I'm sticking to it. Anyway the orthography and plain English part was in reply to Stump. You guys are way too smart.
Actually, I think Rustler is the smartest!
add me to that list, my goof-up is the word "mimicry"
