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changing ([personal profile] geekosaur) wrote in [personal profile] winterkoninkje 2015-10-04 04:59 am (UTC)

It occurs to me that it could also be that shorter vowels are forbidden but long vowels are enough to break it up; "flail" having /ā/ in that position, the examples having /ŏ/ and /ä/ (or possibly /ə/ depending on dialect?).
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