Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

Roger Mills scripsit:

> And
> how does it happen that in those dialects where they're pronounced as stops
> (and one might suspect, in those dialects, rather minimal acquaintance with
> the written form), /T/ is still realized as /t/, /D/ as /d/?
In Ireland, the (dental) stop pronunciation is extremely common, and
nothing to do with literacy, you snide Yank.  :-)

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