Re: English questions
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 20:22 |
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At 05:21 23.5.2003 -0700, Adam Walker wrote:
>Goodness. Sounds like a homework assignment. OE /x/
>had different outcomes depending on its position in
>the word. I became 0 in some environments [f] in
>others and had other outcomes elsewhere.
I should bre surprised if dialect mixture didn't play a role.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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