From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #265 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Thursday, October 28 2004 Volume 04 : Number 265 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] LL in Less Than Perfect [HJJH Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] LL in Less Than Perfect Indeed, the mixed-up accent had me wondering, too. Esp. as she usually has excellent control. As a weak hypothesis-- perhaps she was trying for New England and got it mixed up with British. But, those Kiwi "short e's" sounding like "short i's" were definitely there. As a linguist, I'm fascinated at how they can hear the difference between their pronunciation of pairs words such as BIT:BET, MITT:MET, PIT:PET when they sound the same to me. I've also occasionally noticed words with "short a" sounding like "short e", as in BAD:BED and SAD:SAID. And these sound changes seem to have almost entirely happened since 1965 when I noticed rare hints of it. TEXena ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #265 **************************************