Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 6, 2003, 11:17 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Eight: bough, though, enough, cough, bought, through, hough, borough.
> Not all dialects distinguish all of these. (In RI they are
> bough, tho, enuff, coff, baught, thru, hock, burro respectively.)
> Even more remarkably, these eight pronunciations are distributed over
> only about 30 words altogether.
Are you sure about 'burro'? How is final-o-representing-/@/ any more
regular than final-ough-representing-/@/? I would've expected 'burra',
or 'burrough' at the very worst.
Tristan.
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