My old buddy the archiphoneme

[Millie Webb]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: My old buddy the archiphoneme


> Herb,
>
> Nonsense; you've conflated the vowels of "hoarse" and "horse" and
> haven't distinguished /w/ from /hw/ for decades or more. Moral
> superiority in phoneme-counting and/or partial neutralization is only
> a figment of the self-important Michigan esteem for its own deficient
> dialect.
>
> dInIs

Stated much better than I ever could.  But here I sit wishing I could have
said it, having only recently escaped SE Michigan and its "deficient
dialect".  :-)      -- Millie