Query: women > wimming

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Friday, January 21, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Wilson Gray
<wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:

> FWIW, my
> mother is unique in my experience in pronouncing "women" as [wI m at n].

???  Am I being dense?  Aside from "wimming," I can't think of any other
way it could be pronounced.  Or do you mean she divides the syllables
before the [m] instead of after?  Or inserts a pause?  Or have I been
miss-pronouncing women all these years?

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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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