Re: Other Vulgar Latins?

On 2/21/06, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> there probably aren't that many minimal
> pairs with [f] and [T]
http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/FINTHIN.txt lists:

50 pairs making 38 semantic contrasts

fresher thresher
  freshers threshers
leafy Lethe
firm therm
  firms therms
first thirst
  firsts thirsts
foal thole
  foals tholes
fie thigh
feign thane
  feigns thanes
feoff thief
Finn thin
fuse thews
faugh thaw
forth fourth
ford thawed
faun thorn
  fauns thorns
fought thought
forts thoughts
fours thaws
fro throe
froze throes
Fred thread
fresh thresh
fret threat
  frets threats
free three
frill thrill
frilled thrilled
frills thrills
fug thug
  fugs thugs
oaf oath
beef Beith
deaf death
half hearth
infuse enthuse
  infused enthused
  infusing enthusing
  infuses enthuses
caff Cath
loaf loath
laugh lath
roof Ruth
sheaf sheath
whiff withe
  whiffs withes

(This is for non-rhotic RP, and includes proper nouns. YMMV.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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