Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 6, 2000, 15:03 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Huh? Every Canadian I've ever heard (quite a few) has always had a schwa
> there for the initial vowel before the glide: [@w].
>
> (I'm assuming you do not speak a dialect that has just that for /ow/ -- there are
> some, as I'm sure you know)
Phonetically I suppose it is [@w] (Canadian English, not my own). I don't
really have a phoneticist's ear.
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