Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:49 am, you wrote:
> 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.  :-)
Yes, I am reminded of an old joke.  2 Irish men were walking in the woods,
and saw a sign saying 'tree fellers wanted' So one says to the other, 'Pity
thare's only the two of us'

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