Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!

Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> I have a very
> "globalized" accent, having picked up things from a
> lot of different states and countries, and it drives
> people nuts trying to figure out where I'm from.
Same here.  :-)  I've heard guesses including England, Australia, South
Africa, Germany, and "Eastern European", among others.

I have some odd features, like "remember" and "December" *don't* rhyme
for me.  I say /ri'mEmbr=/ but /di'sImbr=/.  Remember is one of the very
small number of words in my idiolect that violate the general Southern
trend of /E/ -> /I/ before nasals.

Also, I'm not sure if this is idiolectal or dialectal, it's tough to
say, but I definitely have /i/ in words like "sing".  It is a perfect
minimal pair with "seen".  It has, AFAICT, the exact same quality and
length as the vowel in "seen", whereas "sin" both has a different
quality and is shorter.  There was a thread about that some time ago.

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