Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number ofsymbols,though mostly talking about french now

Quoting Kendra <kendra@...>:

> > On the other hand, *neither* analysis explains the phonetic change in
> > the first syllable of /wU/ -> /wI/, and so I don't really see any
> > advantage to analyzing it as a compound.  You'd have to say that this
> > "morpheme" /wU/ has a plural /wI/, which would make _women_ some kind of
> > double plural, unprecedented in English.
>
> To interject,  where I live a lot of people say /wUmIn/ - /wImIn/ (please
> excuse me if I made a mistake :)), which may or may not explain /wI/...
No, you made no mistake. You are simply reinforcing the claim that
for these speakers, "woman" is monomorphemic.

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