dot-calm

[David Bergdahl]

On 1/2/07, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> This works only for people who incorrectly pronounce "measure" with short
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> This pronunciation does not, strangely, predict "special" = "spacial"
although I don't why it doesn't--tensing E before ZH seems a natural
exension of E > e before SH!  Found throughout Ohio (help me w/this Bev)
even in the north (E > e ____SH found mostly in our [Appalachian] part of
the state)

-David Bergdahl
Athens, Ohio

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