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Is this plausible?: ɨ > ä unconditionally (with or without intermediate steps)

I have these forms of a word:

nuzudu
nazada

Trying to introduce irregularity.

Is it plausible to drop the middle "u" in form 1 but keep the middle "a" in form 2? Such that we're left with:

nuzdu
nazada

Until this thread, I have never seen a diaeresis used in English, so I think calling it common is probably overstating the matter.

Still, it's cool to know about.

To my very American ears, he sounds like he's from somewhere in Britain. It's very good.

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Looks fine to me, but why do you have all those categories written at the bottom?

Those are for use with various language tools (SCA etc)

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