Re: Orthography help needed
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 9, 2004, 18:09 |
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Ray wrote:
"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."
In my (i)dialect, the final dental fricative assimilates to the voicing of
the following consonant and automatically voices when the next sound is a
vowel: with me = [wID mi], with you = [wID ju], with him = [wIT hIm] or
[wIDIm], with her = [wIT hr\=] or [wIDr\=], with us = [wID Vs], with them =
[wID.DEm].
Trebor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Trebor1990
"If you pulled the wings off a fly, would it then be called a walk?"
PS: BTW I think spelling /ED/ as "eth" or "edh" is OK with me.
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