Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

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From: "Estel Telcontar" <estel_telcontar@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?


> --- Mike Ellis wrote:
> > Yad help me, I probably shouldn't reply.
> Been reading Guy Gavriel Kay?
>
> >  This is not the kind of thing I tend to notice in conversation
> > unless I'm making a point of picking it out. So I'll test this on a
> > few people around here (Vancouver), and report the results.
>
> So you're located in Vancouver?  Me too!
In British Columbia or in Washington (near Portland)?
Are there significant differences between the accents of the two Vancouver?


>
> >   The way I say it, "Mary" is the same as "marry"
> > and rhymes with "hairy" --  probably close to [mE:r\i].
> > "Merry", on the other hand, rhymes with "ferry",
> > probably close to [mEr\i]. Something like /meiri/ would
> > sound to me like "may ree", whatever that might mean.
> >   This would be the only case in which actual vowel *length* matters
> > a damn in the local 'lect. That is, IF I find other people make the
> same distinction here that I do.
>
> All those words rhyme to me, I think ending in [Er\i].
>
> Estel
>
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