Genitalia

[Bill Smith]

Actually, after I posted, I remembered that I had earlier remembered
"leash," so my question should have been limited to the "-ish-" spelling.
"glaiS at r," of course, fits in the same category as [fiS] for "fish."

At 10:29 PM 9/28/00 +0800, I wrote:
>At 8:41 PM -0400 9/28/00, Bill Smith wrote:
>>In the posting below, I wrote a "see below," but omitted the "below.  Here
>>it is:
>>Are [aiS] and [IS] English sounds?  Aside from proper nouns (e.g.
>>"Fleischmann"), foreign words used only in the context of their native
>>territories (e.g. "Reich"), and dialects in which [I] is raised to [i], I
>>can't think of any.  Is that due to a failure of my memory retrieval, or do
>>such words not exist?
>>Bill
>>
>By [IS], do you mean words like "fish" and "wish"?  M[IS]ion
>accompl[IS]ed.  Can't think of any [aiS] words, though, except proper
>names (e.g. football coach Sam Wyche, pronounced [wayS].  I assume
>we're not allowing sandhi combinations as "English sounds" in the
>relevant sense, as in e.g. "my shirt".  How about "glacier"
>pronounced [glaiS at r], with an Aussie accent (yes, I've been watching
>the Olympics).
>
>larry
>