Re: CHAT: iron worlds (CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 18:22 |
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At 3:19 pm -0400 14/5/01, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>>Here it [=iron] is /aI@n/ or /aI@_r/ in England, /aI@rn/ in Wales (except
>>the
>>coastal region of the S.E. where its /ajj@n/, the /j/ being a true
>>consonant), and /aIr@n/ in Scotland. Note: /r/ in Wales & Scotland is
>>trilled.
>
>Is "_r" in "/aI@_r/" supposed to indicate rhoticity?
Sorry - I should've written /aI@`n/, i.e. a retroflex mid, central vowed.
Retroflex vowels are common in both the urban & rural speech of the south
west and are common in the rural dialects of the midlands. (They were once
common in the rural speech of the south-east also, but the effect of London
has been too great and the south-east is now lmost entirely 'non-rhotic')
Ray.
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