Re: Vowel question, suggestion?

Muke Tever wrote:

> Yeah, I know a Kloosterhuis [klu:str=hajs].  I read (somewhere..) that Dutch
> <ui> was [VH], but I can see how either one would end up as [aj] translated
> to English phonemes.
In 17th Century English, many dialects pronounced modern [ai]
as [Vi] (whence Canadian Raising), so it's not surprising that some
would interpret [VH] as their own /ai/.

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