Re: joining concultures,was Re: Alternative histories andparalele universes

Hawksinger wrote:

>  species (speaking of which, have you noticed it being pronounced
> [SpiSiz]?).
Yeah, I hear it quite often.  I think I read somewhere that there was
a sound change in quite a lot of American dialects, mostly urban I
think, such that s --> S / _tr, which later spilled over in other words
formerly beginning with /s/ and a stop consonant, usually also with an
/r/ (so: /sp/ might have gone to /Sp/ by some weird analogy with this
rule).

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