Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Have this habit of yours ever caused that kind of misunderstandings?
No, but my wife (who's Southern and says /Idnt/ regularly -- I almost
certainly picked it up from her) once got an angry lecture from a snotty
six-year-old.  "It isn't [Idn't], you shouldn't say [Idn't], it's [Iznt]."

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