Re: another silly phonology question

Keith Alasdair Mylchreest wrote:

> In the English East Midlands we used to say /'s@m@t/ for "something", where
> does that come from? "Anything" and "nothing" were usually /owt/ and /nowt/
"Somewhat", "aught", and "naught" in conventional orthography.  This represents
the combination of a lexical difference and and a phonological difference.

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