5 1435 native speaker intuitions british speaker quasistandard variety bit puzzled tony bex assertion british speakers nt use _ _ coulda _ _ means spelling probably true think use sound sequence kud6 6 schwa quite lot conected speech following word begins consonant especially obstruent also wonder whether labelling issue matter native speaker intuitions may slightly misleading phenomenon question 6v frequently spelt _ _ words like _ could _ less highly literate writers surely nt intuition spelling plural _ _ potato etc intuition furthermore greengrocers anybody else use spelling presumably would nt want say plural kind possessive morpheme doubt misspellings taken evidence purported grammatical intuition 6v verb preposition whatever earlier contributors debate seen matter spelling tending lose distinctions homophonous morphemes whose say write richard ingham