Re: [Re: [IE conlangs]]

Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > Those two being homophones in Southern American English, /bIn/, of
> > > course.  :-)
> >
> > In all U.S. Englishes, I think, except perhaps Eastern New England.
>
> If the originals were "been" and "bin", then they aren't, generally,
> homophones here in Md.  Mostly, the one sounds like /bEn/ the other /bIn/.
> I think I've got that right.
Which is why Nik originally said that they're homophones in Southern
American English, because /E/ just doesn't exist before nasals, except
as an allophonic variant of /&/.  (Pronouncing a full /&/ before nasals
sounds positively foreign to me! :) )

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