Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

Adam Walker wrote:
>So there are several of them then.  English *does* have minimal pairs for
>/T/ and /D/.
>
>Thy / thigh
>Thin / then
>ether / either
>with her / wither
>
>Now, admitedly, thy is archaic, the second one depends on dialect, and the
>last one involves reduced speech, and even the third one probably doesn't
>contrast in many dialects, but for my dialect I found 4 mp's in about 5
>mins.
On the other hand three isn't a minimal pair of the opposite reason among
some speakers - /ajD@/ vs /i:T@/, which's what I've picked up.

Last time this came up, several people mentioned things like bath ~ bathe.

                                              Andreas

                                                   Andreas

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