Quirks of the Lexicon
Rob Zook 
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:07:11 -0500

Hi all,

I have been roaming thru the corpus and texturing the dictionary to
make it easier to read into a program. I have found a couple of 
interesting things. In the dictionary, it states:

"H occures only in ancient (Old) Vulcan., cf. ah'Hrak. It may be 
described as velar h with strong and emphatic friction, voiced
similar to Arabic 'rain'."

In the lexicon it states:
"h - as in Eng. hut"

So which is correct? Or, do we have two phonomes here, one designated
by a capital H and one by a little h?

Also, the lexicon does not list a phonome of "kh" yet that letter
combination occurs frequently in the Vulcan words from the TOS books.
Could this perhaps be an alternative spelling for the phonome /q/?

Rob Z.
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