Re: USAGE: (sorry YAEPT) /wIT/ or /wID/

On 12/8/06, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote:
> What about the [wIt] characterising New Yawka English?
What about it?  As a stop, it's still voiceless.  I haven't heard
[wId] much there, nor read transcriptions using it.

I have done no research, but my suspection is that [wID] and [wId], as
lower-energy alternatives, are the newer form and that Americans are
conservative in this regard.  I further suppose that the voiced forms
will win out, in the long term.  But to me they just sound lazy.  :)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>