On 2/21/06, Senno Niegendorff <niegendorff@...> wrote:
> caeruleancentaur wrote:
>
> > I couldn't believe my ears (somewhat literally) when I first became
> > aware of this. I thought I was hearing wrong. "I fink." And I'm
> > positive the little girl in the new Narnia movie (great movie!) uses
> > [f] in that way.
>
> There is a tendency of loosing [T] in many London and other
> South-English dialects in favour of [f] or [v], producing words like
> fink or bover (bother).
You mean [T] -> [f] and [D] -> [v]. "bother" has the latter.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>