Re: YEAPT: f/T (was Re: Other Vulgar Latins?)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 15:20 |
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On 2/22/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> Word-initial only, or everywhere? Do you say [aSu:m], for example, for
> <assume>? What about <suit> -- [su:t], [sju:t] or [Su:t]?
/S/ in any of those sounds way weird to me. Normally /s/,
hoity-toitily /sj/, but never ever /S/. It is inconceivable that
|suit| and |shoot| could be homophones in any 'lect in the vicinity of
mine.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>