Genitalia

[Laurence Horn]

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