Question on "anythink"

[Geoffrey S. Nathan]

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Let me add to what Larry says about final /g/ that Cockney exhibits final
[k].  I don't have  a handy reference to Cockney here in my office, but I
note that Wells' discussion of the dialect includes the fact that final
voiceless stops affricate in Cockney, and uses as an example 'nothing'
[n^thinkx](1) (Wells 1982:323).  I also recall my mother, who was raised in
Central London, and occasionally produced some authentic data, used to say
[n^fink], among other examples. I don't know what the immigration patterns
to New Zealand are, but Londoners got around lots of places.
 
(1)     Apologies for ascii-flavored IPA.  ^ represents caret, th represents
theta.
 
Geoff
 
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