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Continuing on with my series of disjointed questions: One of the phonemes in my current romlang is /OE/ (open front unrounded)... I know in a few Germanic languages, and possibly even French, it's sometimes an allophone of /oe/, but I've discarded the idea of French 'oeu' or even the more appropriate 'oau' so as to avoid confusion (because the language also has a few polyphthongs), and I really don't want to resort to "ö" for aesthetic reasons (or actually, *synaesthetic* reasons; "ö" simply doesn't look like /OE/ sounds to me). Obviously, this is a much more common allophone than phoneme in most cases, so it isn't often represented as such-- any ideas how I might be able to represent in a way that's a little more original but not beyond convincing?