| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 3, 2001, 17:47 |
Matt Pearson wrote:>David Peterson wrote: > >> In a message dated 5/2/01 10:18:54 PM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes: >> >> << Actually, there is one pair of words where the two sounds are >> clearly phonemic: _thy_ /Daj/ ~ _thigh_ /Taj/. >> >> Actually, there are two: "either" [iDr] and "ether" [iTr]. :) > >And what about "wreath" [riT] and "wreathe" [riD]?And "bath": "bathe". Though IMHO derived forms are weak reeds as minimal pairs.
| J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> | |
| Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |