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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, June 5, 2003, 21:38
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:35:39PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Tho, I will say that beyond that, there are dialectal minimum pairs, > like, in my dialect, then/thin (due to the Southern US merger of /E/ and > /I/ before nasals)
Thus the seemingly redundant word "inkpen" used to distinguish the [pIn] you write with from the [pIn] you stick through things. :)
> mouth/mouthe
Hm. I spell both of those "mouth", but come to think of it I do pronounce the noun with a [T] and the verb with a [D]. -Mark

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