Re: THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> In many (all?) colloquial English dialects /ai/ and
> /Oi/ had apparently fallen together, a couple of centuries or so back I=
IRC,
> being pronounced variously [@i], [ai] or [Oi] according to region.  But=
 the
> gradual growth of universal education last century did much to restore =
the
> difference between the two sounds.  When I grew up in West Sussex in th=
e
> 1940s & 50s, /ai/ had already been established as the usual sound;
Do you mean that /aj/ and /Oj/ are now both in existence?  Are there any
cases of hypercorrection, with, for instance, <toy> being pronounce
/taj/?

> I'm sure what sound you mean by {aeu}; if you mean [Eu]
Well, I don't know about Britain, but most American dialects use /&w/
for "ow", thus /h&ws/, etc.

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