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From: John Wells <wells@phon.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: /V/ vs. /@/ 
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How about "unorthodoxy" vs "an orthodoxy"; "untidy" vs "an(d) tidy",
"seagull" vs "eagle"?

See my Accents of English, CUP 1982, eg p. 381.

John Wells

