Re: CHAT behove etc (was: Natlag: Middle English impersonal verbs)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 10, 2006, 19:29 |
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Ray, shame on you, starting YAEPT!
On 3/10/06, Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>
> > So I see. In most (all?) varieties of English the
> > vowels in _does_ and
> > _bother_ are different. And AFAIK the words _does_
> > and _could_ only
> > share the vowels in parts of north England.
> >
>
> I believe I pronounce these two words with the same
> vowel...and I'm from New York.
There are always exceptions, but even if that's true in your idiolect,
it's not the norm in New York.
In GenAm, "does" is something like [dVz] (same vowel as "luck") while
"could" is [kUd] (with the same vowel as "look"). Do you pronounce
"luck" and "look" the same? (Or other such pairs as buck/book,
putt/put, etc.)
AFAIK, having only read volume 1 of Wells' book, a /V/~/U/ merger
(into something closer to [U] than to [V]) is typical of North Britain
(Scotland and northern bits of England), rare elsewhere.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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