On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > It still amazes my Slavic mind that the distinction between > a monophthong and a falling diphthong should count as fine. Probably because English has no tense monophthongs, near enough. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]" --Eric Raymond