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

Adam Walker scripsit:

> 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.
For me, "with her" is /wIDR/ whereas "wither" is /'wiDR/, so the contrast
is stress, not voice.

In many dialects, also (but not for me), ether / either is [iTR] / [AiDR].

Still, it makes more sense than the heng phoneme, which is realized
as [h] in onsets and [N] in codas ....

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