Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

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From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

> > > 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.
> >
> > "thistle" and "this'll".  [TISl=] and [DISl=].  And maybe teeth and
> > teethe
> > [tiT] vs [tiD].
>
> thistle/this'll is another one, but wouldn't it be "teeth" [tiT] and
> "teethe" [ti:D]?
It depends...that's why I said maybe...