Heard — or, rather, misheard —  in a tv commercial for Oral-B electric toothbrushes (which can be viewed here): (1) I’m never going back to Emanuel Brush. when what the actor was saying was: (2) I’m never going back to a manual brush. Now, since I have [ǝ] (rather than [ɪ]) in the first syllable … Continue reading In brief: phonological words