Re: another silly phonology question
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 30, 2000, 6:12 |
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At 9:17 am -0500 29/11/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>>At 10:46 pm -0500 28/11/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
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>>>No? " nuffin "? Wo? sor? a burk says " nuffink "? :)
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>>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'?).
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>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.
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