"quarter"

[Beth Lee Simon]

I'm /k/ in "quarter to ANY TIME NUMBER, but /kw/ in the phrase when it
ends without the number, for instance, "you better hurry, it's quarter
to."
and, I'm /kw/ in quarter horse.


beth simon
assistant professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university

"Bethany K. Dumas" wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> >i suspect that occurrences of simple [k] for /kw/ before /O/
> >are more frequent that people imagine.
>
> Hmmm. Okay. Don is right and I am sure that Arnold is right. I will
> listen more carefully.
>
> (I will also ask my /kw/arterhorse mare what she thinks.)
>
> Bethany