From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 58568
Date: 2008-05-17
-----------Not to mention, in Southwest and Midland dialects,y: yø: ø?:?
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Forgot to say, that if [:] existed at all in these dialects, it would have arisen from OSL of short <eo> ([]), e.g. <cleopie(n)> "call" (> NE "yclept"), so would not have existed in the early phonology of these dialects.