Re: USAGE: Glottal stop for /t/ (was Re: 2nd person pronoun for
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 21, 2002, 5:38 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Roger Mills scripsit:
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>> Similarly button, batten, Clinton, Fenton, Canton (towns in US, not
China),
>> brighten, Brighton, muntin, mutton, sittin', hittin' etc. etc.
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>For me, Clinton, Fenton, Canton, and muntin (a word I never saw before)
You've probably looked it up by now, but if not: muntins are the little
wooden thingies that divide a window into panes. While technically, muntin
should differ from mutton by having a nasalized vowel, for most carpenters
or lumber-yard salesmen they're homonymous (not nasalized)-- perhaps because
mutton has almost vanished from the US diet.
>don't have nasal plosion....
Not quite sure what you mean by this.....
>(I can't get a stable judgment on Brighton, probably because
>I make it homonymous with brighten).
Precisely.
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