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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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>.

Standard in Copenhagen before front vowel: Tsivoli.


Torsten