Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

On 2009-02-22 00:06, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Where do English speakers do that?

Mostly in Britain: popular London speech, Scouse, etc. Have you never
heard Cockney realisations of words like <top> as [tsOp]? In London
English, an affricated intervocalic [ts] may be used as an "elegant"
allophone of /t/ in lieu of the "vulgar" glottal stop in words like
<butter> and <party>.

> Bonus Dumb Question: Is Slavic /s^c^, s^t/ somehow related to this
> phenomenon?

Slavic /s^c^, s^t (~ c, c^)/ is a complex problem and I'm not sure which
part of it you mean.

Piotr