minimal pairs (was: PIE e/o Ablaut)

[Dr. John E. McLaughlin]

> [Pat Ryan wrote]

> In my travels around the country,
> I have heard a number of pronunciations
> including /hjuw/; in fact.  The only time
> I can remember /g/, the palatal dorsal spirant, is
> here in the
> South: /g|/.

I've heard it throughout the West as well.  My eight-year-old just said it
in response to the question, "How would you tell me that something is
really, really big?"  "It's huge" [c-cedilla).  She's never lived in the
south.

John E. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
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