Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:48:37 +0100 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
> writes:
> > Eeeh gads! "Ying" is actually a terrible example 'cuz it involves
> > /I/ not
> > /i/. "Yiddish" is /ji/ though.
Eh? For me it's the other way around, /jiN/ and /jIdIS/. */IN/ is
illegal in my idiolect.
> I've never heard "Yiddish" with /i/....it's always ['jIdIS] (with a
> flapped /d/, it sounds like). Hence the orthographic {dd} to mark the
> preceding {i} as short /I/, and not long /aj/ - waitasec....if it was /i/
> it'd be written {Yeedish}, wouldn't it?
Yep.
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