representative words partitioning UK/US [english vowel variation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set):
> bath choice cloth cure dress face fleece foot force goat goose kit lot mouth near north nurse palm price square start strut thought trap


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Lambek's "From word to sentence" notes (pp.79-80) the difficulty of shoehorning languages which use parallel constructions (resp. the mathematician's *respectively*) to place objects and modifiers, not in a nested order, but in parallel sequence (resp. not order-inverting).  Maybe linguists need an equivalent of the `zip` function?