Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 20:36 |
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"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Now that I think about it, there's also [Dau] "thou (you singular)" vs.
> [Tau] "thou (short for 'thousand')". But that and thy/thigh are the only
> minimal pairs I can think of.
Let's halt it here before we start another English Pronunciation
Thread. :-)
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) or mouth/mouthe. I believe "teeth/teethe" is a
minimum pair in every dialect.
But, please, no "my dialect has ..." comments. :-)
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