Yes, for which see Christian Bök's _Eunoia_, in which each chapter is
made up of words with only one vowel; the 'u' section is definitely
'low.'
Doug
On 3-Jan-05, at 2:11 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Peace, Alison, 'cluck' and 'suck' rhyme for no good reason other than
>> everything is connected
>
> Actually, I think it may be more complicated than that, with a deep
> phoenaesthetic link between the two words --
>
> ... think:
>
> cluck suck buck ruck duck -- inter
> alia.
>
> Phoenaesthetic links tend to be scouted in semantic theory, as they're
> difficult to code and mostly work on exclusionary principles, so the
> CONSONANT [u] CONSONANT combination doesn't *enforce* any tight range
> of
> meaning, but does exclude lots.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Prolly not ...
>
> :-(
>
> Robin Hamilton
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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