Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

You also might want to hear someone from Eastern
Kentucky, maybe from Hazard County, pronounce <book>
or <buckeye> with the fronted vowel they often use.
Not all of them do it, many are "edgy-cated"


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: P&G
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> 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
>
>
>

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