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Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, January 30, 2003, 16:20
shtaving John Cowan:
>And Rosta scripsit: > >> i was thinking of the waning accents that don't rhyme moan/mown, >> groan/grown. > >Hmm. What's the distinction phonetically? >
In each case, the second ends with a consonant cluster "wn", rather than a single consonant "n". Pete Bleackley