Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A discourse on Phonemics (was:

John Cowan wrote:


>And Rosta scripsit:
>> As for /rQT/, that's
>> not an AusE preculiarity; rather, /raT/ is an AmE peculiarity. (Hence
>> British newspapers calling _Portnoy's complaint_ _The gripes of Roth_.)
>
>I hear enough [rAT] and Bostonian [raT] to find the pun funny, but
>of course GA (and I) have [r&T].
>
ditto, ditto, ditto.  And there is "wroth" (only in "to wax wroth"), which
may be influencing things too.....?