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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, December 8, 2006, 8:29
I'm listening to Bono of U2 singing [wIT o` wIT@ut ju]
(thereby probably showing my age...) what I'm wondering
about is the voiceless [T] in both "with" and "without; is
this an Irish thing? I note that it's a clear fricative
and not [t_d], so he's not a stereotypical Irishman in
*that* respect.
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot

                                 (Max Weinreich)

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