Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Andrew Smith:
> And's comment about _to_ being realised as [?] is very interesting, too,
> which doesn't sound quite right to me. On the other hand, And's ear for this
> kind of thing is normally very good, and I may well be being distracted by
> native speaker syndrome, so could I ask for an example? For instance, I
> would say the common phrase "I'm off to the pub" as [amQft_h@?p_hUb]
Afaik, no English accent allows [?] after a fricative. But "go
to the pub" could be [gO:?pUb], "went into the pub" [wEnthIn?pUb],
"want to go" [wQn?gO:], "I've got for to go" (= Std E "got to")
[avgQ?f@?gO:].

--And.