Re: Re[3]: [tied] Mille (thousand)

I'm sorry but those quadraitic equations and know
theories have clouded your head. I'm originally from
Ohio and we clearly said "wooden" for <wouldn't> i.e.
/wudn/, although we did use the interrogatory /wunch&/


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 4:16:38 PM on Sunday, March 9, 2008,
> fournet.arnaud
> wrote:
>
> > From: Daniel J. Milton
>
> >> Would anyone but a linguist "surmise" or
> "reanalyse" an
> >> s-mobile? Isn't the s mobile because it comes
> and goes
> >> naturally without thought by the speakers?
>
> > I don't think something can come and go without
> thought.
>
> > (in linguistics or in porn likewise)
>
> Happens all the time in ordinary speech: for <cat> a
> single
> speaker may say [kæt], [kæ?t], or [kæ?] and never
> notice
> that the [t] has disappeared completely from the
> last. A
> speaker very likely won't notice that <wouldn't>
> ['wUdnt]
> has become [wUnt]. And so on.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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