Gratiutious YAEPT (was Re: Phonological musings (was: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"))
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 18:29 |
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Because asking me to resist the EPTs is like whistling in the wind...
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:48:03 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:
> the RPoid English I learnt has [we@] for
> "were". I suppose Tolkien's 'lect differed here; dialectal variation
> 'tween [we:] and [we@] is, of course, easily believable.
/w@:/ ~ /w6:/ here, with /w@/ in unstressed environments.
i.e and e.g. /w6: ju ?DE:/ vs /wE w@ ju/
Paul