Re: Sound Shifts
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 13:32 |
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Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> When I was young I
> pronounced 'towel', 'tail' & 'tell' as homophones, namely: [tEw].
"Tail" and "tell" just sound like phonological accent differences,
but [tEw] for "towel" sounds like a genuinely lexical dialect
difference. Are there other examples of [@w] -> [E]?
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)