Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

J Y S Czhang scripsit:

>     What is so wrong with long "a" being split into "a" and "aa"?  *  Or =
> "s"
> to "z" when pronounced /z/?? **
The whole idea of RI is to change only so much as actually *needs* changing
to fix the irregularities.  Changing the bulk of non-doubled s to z goes
way beyond that.

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