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Re: another silly phonology question

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, November 30, 2000, 6:12
At 9:17 am -0500 29/11/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Raymond Brown wrote: > >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>At 10:46 pm -0500 28/11/00, Padraic Brown wrote: >>[....] >>> >>>No? " nuffin "? Wo? sor? a burk says " nuffink "? :) >> >>Same sort as say /'EnifINK/ and /'sVmfINK/. I shall hear these words again >>today - but I'd better not name the burks as some are colleagues I work >>with (or should I say 'wiv'?). > >Well, there's a thing. I'll have to listen for it more carefully. >Is 'wif' a possibility?
I think not. AFAIK [wIT] is strictly Scots, and also AFAIK no self-respecting Scot pronounces /T/ as [f]. South of the border it's uniformally [wID] (or [wIv] ). Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================