Re: more English orthography

DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> I had no intention of dismissing your experience. It's just that, for me,
> when I hear /mejri/, I begin to start anticipating expressions like "stand
> on line"
Got that one.

> and "Could we let's go already?", and the word "ruin" almost
> pronounced /ryn/.
Nope: /'Ru-In/, two syllables.

> Perhaps "New York" paints it with too large a brush.
> Brooklyn? If I understand you correctly, the (/oi/ -> /@/, e.g.) (and isn't
> it vice versa, too?) thing sounds like Archie Bunker, and didn't the Bunkers
> live in Queens?
Actually, the oi/er "interchange" is more determined by class than locality.
What really happens is that both /Oj/ and /@r/ are realized as [Vj].
Since this sound is quite different from the usual realizations, it
tends to be heard by others as /@r/ in "noisy oyster" and /Oj/ in "thirty-third".

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