Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

Wed Jul 19 14:13:18 EDT 2017

On 2017年07月19日 09:29, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
>>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> * a final "v" receives a superfluous "e" ("love")
>>>> It's not superfluous there, it's preventing "love" from looking like
>> it should rhyme with "of".
>> I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original motivation. If I had to guess,
> the reason was the possible visual confusion with "w".
>> An interesting tidbit is that the English spelling demonstrates how the
> [o] sound regularly shifted into an [ʌ] sound in front of nasals and
> "v":
>> dove
> love
> hover

In UK English, "hover" has the short-O sound.
> cover
> shove
> above
>> sponge
> come
> among
> front
> done
> son
> monk
> monkey
>> Again, exceptions abound:
>> on
> wrong
> song
> gone
> long
>Also:
 cove
 stove
and then there's:
 move
which is different again.