Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

Do we have some NZ English native speaker

around here

who could provide some sound files in .wav format

to be put in cybalist files

so that we can analyse this and decide ?

Arnaud

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From: P&G

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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:06 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [SPAM]Re: [tied] Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

>> I'd think most dialects of English have /ö/
>That seems unlikely, if you mean present-day dialects.

It is found in NZ-speak There is a description of the name 'Turner' being
pronounced almost exactly as the German word Töne. NZ-speak has been called
the only known language in which there is a single front rounded vowel,
which is not /y/. (I've lost the source of that, but it makes sense. /u/
is a mid-u, neither truly back nor front.)

Peter