Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

Quoting Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>:

> "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> korte:
> > So, for example, in American English,
> > [t], [t_h], [t.], [t._h], [t[], and [r"] are all possible ways
> > of transcribing a "t"-sound, but because American English speakers
> > "hear" them all as the same sound, they are phonemically transcribed
> > as /t/.
>
> you left out [?_h] which is how my brother pronounces final /t/ and /k/
> (which makes words like "lake" [lEj?_h] and "late" [lEj?_h] homonyms)
Where are you and your brother from? I would prefer to class
[?_h] as part of your brother's idiolect rather than a feature
of any large dialect of English.

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