Re: Dublex/Katanda hybrid

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> >As for "whole land" and "whole and", "and" is pronounced /@n/ unless
> >special stress is placed on it, so here again there is no real question
> >of phonetic or phonological gemination.
>
> ..and, of course, the syllable final "dark-l" is quite a different sound
> from the 'light-l' at the beginning of 'land' in practically all versions
> of English (I think the only exceptions occur in some Irish English
> dialects);
My idiolect has only dark l's; people have a lot of trouble understanding
me when I order "milk" [mMl~k] in a restaurant.

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