/or/ distinctions and more

Bethany K. Dumas dumasb at UTK.EDU
Thu Apr 13 12:50:16 UTC 2000


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Natalie Maynor wrote:
>> Earlier somoene suggested that I am the last living speaker who
>> distinguishes horse - hoarse. I also distinguish cot - caught etc.
>
>The cot/caught distinction is alive and well in Mississippi, but
>there are few horse/hoarse distinguishers.  (That's my unscientific
>observation -- no real research.  I think it's a pretty accurate
>observation, though, based on both what my ears tell me and on
>discussions of these matters with students.)
>
>On a phonologically different subject but on the relic thread, I'm
>beginning to wonder if I might end up as the last living which/witch
>distinguisher.

Nope. There are two of us.

Bethany



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