Re: possesives in -s
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Friday, August 11, 2000, 3:11 |
Padraic Brown wrote:
> What's wrong with /rOs@s/?
In my dialect, plural and possessive is only /s/ when adjacent to a
voiceless consonant, like "cats", when adjacent to a vowel (including
schwa) or a voiced consonant, it's /z/. /rOs@s/ I would interpret as
something like Rossus.
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