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FONE eems ....
Yup: entirely consistent with standard English orthography.
Plain vanilla English word.
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.