| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 10:38 |
Mark J. Reed wrote:>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. :) > >Are 'biro' and 'ballpoint pen' not used in America? -- Tristan <kesuari@...>
| John Cowan <cowan@...> | |
| Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> | |
| Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> | |
| Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |