Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 1, 2001, 0:44 |
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At 03.46 a.m. 1.10.2001, you wrote:
>I'm from Canada, and "spider" and "inside her" rhyme for me. I can't
>think of ever hearing them not rhyme. [spaid@'] and [insaid h@'], ([@']
>is the rhotic schwa, right?]) or something like that.
In Oz, ["spaid@] and ["Insaid h3\:] aren't the best of rhymes, but
["spaid@] and ["Insaid@] do, so it can work, but doesn't have to.
`Oz' here is, of course, the colloquial name for Australia, a back
formation of `Aussie', not the fictional world that this thread was so
recently involved in.
Tristan