Re: Elvish ideas ...

In my dialect of english, suit sounds correct both as su:t and sju:t.
Sorry if I get the vowels wrong.... I would prefer asju:m over aSu:m,
although the second sound okay.... and presume I would tend to say as
prezu:m unless I was trying to sound very formal in which case it
becomes preZju:m. Am I just odd or is this an English vs Australian
accent thing?

>3a sj > s  > s 'suit'
>3b sj > sj > S 'assume'
>4a zj > z  > z
>4b zj > zj > Z 'presume'
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>I'm not sure what the conditions were that decided whether sj became s or
>S (etc), other than that one happened a while ago (possibly before it was
>Australian) and the other has happened more recently. I think it might
>just be if it's the first syllable in a word, it became /s/, otherwise it
>didn't, but I dunno. As simple as that and it isn't consistent with /lj/ >
>/l/ or /lj/ (which in broader dialects processeds to /j/, hence Austraia).
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>But yeah, my point is have the best of all worlds and have complexities
>with stress. :)
>
>--
>Tristan                  <kesuari@...>
>
>Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
>be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
>                -- Snoopy
>
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