Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar

Ed Heil wrote:

> Then again, there's English, where the phoneme /D/ appears prety much
> only in demonstratives and the definite pronoun.
What?  There's a whole raft of words that make some
derivation based (sometimes just in part) based on the
voicing of [T] to [D]:

wreath [riT] : (to) wreathe [riD]
breath [brET] : (to) breathe [briD]
heath [hiT] : heath(en) [hiD@n]
loath [louT] : (to) loathe [louD]

And then then there was some rule way back when that
changed (in one particular dialect of Southern British
English) all -[dEr] to -[DEr], among which:  "father", "gather"
(and thus "together"), "rather", "smather" (I think).

And even then, there are plenty of other words, like "there",
"then", "bequeath", etc.

But you're right insofar as it's not very productive as phonemes go.

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