Re: IPA griefs

>From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:25:54 -0400
>
>After some reflection, though, I hit on the minimal pair
>"leisure"/"ledger",
>though this does not work for all Merkins, many of whom have ['liZ=r] for
>the
>former.  In hackish slang, we have "adger" (to wreck something as a result
>of an elementary mistake), which is a minimal pair with "azure".
>
Neither of which work for my dialect since I have ['liZ=r] and ['lEdZ=r] and
though I've never come across the word "adger" before, I would pronounce it
['&dZ=r] while "azure" is [&Z'Ur] or [@Z'Ur] depending on speed of
utterance.

Adam who wishes there was a more cross-dialectal minimal pair
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