Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovel

From: G&P
Message: 61305
Date: 2008-11-03

>>voiceless [W] as a phoneme,

>Can you give an example?

Where ~ wear

What ~ Watt

Which ~ witch

Whether ~ weather

…etc.

As a child, I used to b so puzzled over British puns on these words, because they were totally different sounds to me.

Peter