Re: Pre-Kindergarten diphthong analysis
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 21, 2008, 0:08 |
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:
> it makes for some interesting spellings. A colleague saw a sign that
> read "HOARSE for SELL" just a few miles south of where I live.
I'm confused. Wouldn't that misspelling of HOARSE for HORSE be *less*
likely somewhere that maintains the pronunciation distinction?
We have the SALE/SELL merger in the Southeast, too, but in the other
direction;they're both pronounced almost bisyllabically, something
like /sej@l/.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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