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Re: þe_getisbyrg_adres

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 18:30
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:15:11PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> My problems with it are that it doesn't note stress...
Right. At first I took the accents to indicate stress, but who accents "November" on the first syllable? I don't see the value in removing the capitalization convention, either.
> _To_ for 'to' but _pur_ for 'poor' strikes me as amazingly > and unbelievably backward (historically the both represent the same > vowel
But in many modern dialects they no longer do so. Also, I don't know if this was continuing your previous point or starting a new one, but if the former - the word "to" has no schwa in my 'lect. Except for set phrases in which it desyllabifies to /t/, or morphs into unrecognizability (e.g. /gUn@/ for "going to"), it is always /tu/, even when unstressed. So that's not a case of schwa removal. -Marcos

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