FYI: linguistics in the news: case of the missing "t"

[Herb Stahlke]

The comments on the article are worth a scan.  One MoabMike objects
that if /t/ were being lost people wouldn't pronounce it in "Utah"
either.  At least he's looking for counterexamples,

Herb

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:13 PM, James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
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