The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 30-01-04 10:36, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Probably the Lord's Prayer saved /fA:ð&r/. /aUr fE:ð&r/ just

doesn't

> > sound right. So maybe it was a register thing after all,

with /dEd/

> > being lower refister.
>
> And what saved /"ra:D&r/ for <rather> in British English? /"lA:D&r/

is

> also the majority pronunciation of <lather> in southern Britain
> (although it can also rhyme with <gather>).
>

Probably /fA:ð&r/ did. As you implicitly say, they have gone by the
wayside in American, leaving only /fA:ð&r/ protected by
its 'sacredness'.

Torsten