Re: Vowels?

Nice to know I'm not the only one who pronounces
"glutton" /glV??n/

From the king of the English glottal stop
Clint


--- Padraic Brown <agricola@...> wrote:
> Am 26.01.02, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Am 26.01.02, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:
> > >
> > > > > English is full of syllabic nasal
> consonants.
> > > >
> > > > Dialects of English are full of syllabic nasal
> consonants.
> > >
> > > Six of one...
> >
> > Huh?
>
> You both said essentially the same thing.
>
> >
> > > > Tristan [tSr\Ist@n] (or, to pick a word that
> lacks the 's',
> > > > Kryton=[kr\aid/t@n] (d/t meaning either a [t]
> or a [d]))
> > >
> > > For me, [tRIst&n] and [kRajtOn] (I think). You
> chose two
> > > marked words, names. They rarely follow the
> rules precisely
> > > anyway. How about "piston" or "glutton"?
> >
> > Just like the examples I provided before:
> ["p_hIst@n], [glAt/d@n].
>
> OK. Does your dialect have any syllabic nasals (or
> other sounds)?
> If this is representative, yours doesn't seem to
> distinguish
> what for many of us is a reduced syllable in
> unmarked words. For
> me, [pIstn] and [glV?tn] or [glV??n].
>
> > Tristan
>
> Padraic.
> --
> Gwerez dah, chee gwaz vaz, ha leal.

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