Re: /T/ -> /t_d/?

Carsten wrote: (quite a while ago...)

> (A) it would be likely that /T/ changes into /t_d/?
Absolutely - it happens in my local dialect of English
(an area of Dublin), and throughout Irish dialects.

It's very common, though in some places the [t_d] slips
to [t], meaning there's little or no distinction between
/T/ and /t/. In other places, there's a consistant and
wide distinction between the dental and alveolar phonemes.

People illustrate these varieties (both types) by saying
that so-and-so says "dis da' deez and doze" (for "this that
these and those").

The current Taoiseach (Premier), Bertie Ahern, speaks, or
used to speak like this. He might have "fixed" it by now -
it's considered "incorrect".

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