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Re: another silly phonology question

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Thursday, November 30, 2000, 6:36
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:12:01AM +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 9:17 am -0500 29/11/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
[snip]
> >Is 'wif' a possibility? > > I think not. AFAIK [wIT] is strictly Scots, and also AFAIK no > self-respecting Scot pronounces /T/ as [f].
[snip] Interesting. In Malaysia, [wIf] or [wif] is a very widespread pronunciation of "with". T -- People walk. Computers run.