Re[6]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar A

At 11:56:14 AM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, G&P <G.and.P@...> wrote:

[...]

>> More significantly for me, some linguists won’t accept
>> voiceless [W] as a phoneme, but in my dialect it
>> undeniably is.

> Can you give an example?

wail/whale
witch/which
wight/white
wicker/whicker
wen/when
win/whin
way/whey

All are [w]/[W] for me, and probably for Peter as well. But
this distinction is vanishing in the U.S. and largely gone
in England, though I believe that it's still healthy in
Scotland.

Brian