Re: USAGE: English eth

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:45:06 -0500 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> Finally: bathe, bequeath, betroth, blithe, breathe, clothe, lathe,
> lithe, loathe, scythe, seethe, smooth, soothe, teethe, tithe,
> withe,
> wreathe, writhe and their inflected and derived forms.  The verb
> "mouth"
> (not the noun "mouth") also belongs to this category.
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"Bequeath" , "lithe", and some of the other words here i pronounce with
[T], not [D]... some of them may be because i've never really *heard*
them spoken, but have seen them in writing.

> Oddball (anticipatory voicing, I think): algorithm, logarithm,
> rhythm.
> These are probably the most recent /D/ words in English.
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Couldn't you just say that the [D] in "-ithm"  words is intervocalic,
since it comes between /I/ and the syllabic /m=/?

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> Not to perambulate             || John Cowan
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