Re: Beijing, Zhongguo, etc.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> My guess would, instead, have been a pen-pin merger: /E/ merging with
> /I/ before /n/ rather than diphthongising. (And leading to
> circumlocutions such as "ink p@n" and "stick p@n" to distinguish the
> two.)
Yup, that's true of my regiolect, though not my idiolect.  Apparently
not the case a ways north where Jim is. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>