Re: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 15:29:51 -0500, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:
> >I'm guessing that Richard is thinking of things like the
> >surname <Menzies>, now /'miN@.../ or the like,
>
> The Scots I'm most familiar with is as she's spoken in one of my

all-time

> favourite movies ("Gregory's Girl", Bill Forsyth, 1981), and

Mister Menzies

> is something like /mInzis/ there.

Said with a cold, it sounded something like ['mIgi:z] when I was
officiating at a student election, which completely confused me.
(It could have been ['mIg&s] that was uttered.] The other official
understood (or knew?) the voter, and apologised with the excuse that
I was an Englishman.

Richard.