Re: YASPT
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 3:35 |
|---|
At 13:50 9.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > >My mother's West Gautic dialect has it too.
> >
> > You mean the distinction or the merger?
>
>The distinction.
>
>She and my brother once had a delicious argument whether _fem_ "five" and
>_hem_ "home" rhyme, problem being that they failed to notice she's saying
>[fEm]
>and [hem], he's [fEm] and [hEm].
Actually they both have /e/ [e] for me.
/BP 8^)
--
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__
A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \
__ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / /
\ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / /
/ / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / /
/ /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ /
/_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\
Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun
~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~
|| Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! ||
"A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)
Reply