Velarization (was: English: Thou)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2000, 11:27 |
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At 3:09 pm -0500 22/6/00, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
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>> At 21:36 21.6.2000 -0400, Robert Hailman wrote:
>> >Or maybe /jau/ for the plural, /ju/ for the singular? Just a thought.
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>> That /jao/ is how some Brits would pronounce the spelling _yall_! :-)
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>I've noticed that there's a lot of extreme velarization in some urban
>dialects I've heard on British sitcoms and dramas like "Eastenders".
>Is that really that common?
Yep - very common in London and its environs.
Ray.
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