At 5:30 pm -0500 19/6/99, Nik Taylor wrote:
>"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
.....
>
>Do you mean that /aj/ and /Oj/ are now both in existence?
Yes, everywhere AFAIK.
>Are there any
>cases of hypercorrection, with, for instance, <toy> being pronounce
>/taj/?
Never come across it - though I suspect they probably did occur earlier
this century.
>> 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.
Yep, down here in the south [&w] is probably the most common pronunciation
now - the of S.E. England [Ew] is regarded as 'lower class'.
Ray.