Return of the minimal pairs

Tue Jun 5 05:31:57 UTC 2001

At 07:59 PM 6/2/01 -0700, Sam Martin wrote:

>On Larry's inquiry about American speakers and their vehicular
>(vee-HICK-y at -l@r) haitchiness:

>I have always pronounced "vehicle" as VEE-hick- at l.
>The first eighteen years of my life were spent in Kansas.

Ah, that explains it.  I am also from Kansas, but I have lived in
California for over 15 years now, so I apparently vacillate between the
Kansas and the California pronunciation.

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