Re: USAGE: Thorn vs Eth
| From: | Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 10:55 |
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Tristan Typed;
Syllabic /N/? Where do you find those? (Both in words and in space.)
> Unbelievable to me; the velar quality of /N/ means that the most reduced
> the previous vowel will come out as is /I/.
Barbara Babbles;
In many dialects a final -ing is replaced by syllabic n, so insead of
saying "singing" a person with that dialect says "singN". The Brummie
accent is even odder, using the nasal "ng" sound but voicing the "g"
too, so you get "sing-ging-g"!
Barbara
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