Re: [Re: [IE conlangs]]

John Cowan wrote:
> So you make "sand" like my "send", and both "send" and "sinned"
> like my "sinned", apparently.  (Of course, I may indeed be a
> foreigner to a Texian.)
I'm not sure if that's a general Southern characteristic.  I, in
Florida, say /s&n(d)/ for "sand" and /sIn(d)/ for both "send" and
"sinned", altho there's a slight difference between those last two in
that I'm more likely to pronounce the /d/ of "sinned" before a consonant
than I am with "send", presumably because of the morphological content
of the /d/ there.  In certain contexts, "send" can sometimes sound like
"sin", since I often drop the final /d/ in /nd/ clusters before
consonants.

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