Re: Orthography help needed
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 9, 2004, 17:49 |
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On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 01:25 AM, Tim May wrote:
[snip]
> A final /D/ after a short vowel is extremely unusual in English and
> the natural pronunciation of |eth| is surely /ET/.
Eh? 'with' /wID/ seems _very_ common and usual to me. /wIT/ I've
encountered only in Scots English. Certainly in southern England & Wales
it's /wiD/ and IME this pronunciation is pretty common in other anglophone
areas.
Ray
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