| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 12:50 |
> >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]. Andreas
| Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> | |
| Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |