--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > At 17:11 -0400 2004-05-10, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > >cowan@... wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Michael Everson scripsit:
> > >>
> > >> > Many dialects of English have /x/. You can
> call English in Wales,
> > >> > Scotland, and Ireland "contaminated" but I
> don't think it's right to
> > >> > do so. The sounds have been there for
> centuries, and are learned in
> > >> > infancy by native speakers.
> > >>
> > >> Fair enough. |
> Ya call that English!?
> > >
> > >You could have specified Standard English.
> >
> > Whose standard? This isn't like an Appalachian
> village dialect feature.
>
> RP? GenAm?

--Reply--
Do you mean the fricative /kh/?!?! If you did, my use
of English also has it, because I read materials
containing lexical items from languages having this
particular sound (as well as the rolled versions for
<r> ...)
Thank You!

Robert Lloyd Wheelock
Augusta, ME USA






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