Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <magwich78@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
>
> > ***
> > Patrick:
> >
> > No American dialect from coast to coast or in between pronounces
> > <lot> as /la?/.
> >
> > ***
>
> Tell me how not.
>
> - Rob

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Patrick:

"how not"? Whatever do you mean?

There is no "how" involved.

Nor 'why'.

It just is.

Transforming /t/ into a glottal stop (/?/) in English is strictly a low
register Briticism. Whether it happens or not in Canadian English in any
register, I do not know, but I doubt it. I certainly have never heard it.

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