Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 10:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >>Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:32:48 +0300
> >>>Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> phonemes. In my dialect of spoken English, the words "do" and
> "dew" are distinguished by the use of the hard /d/ in the first,
> and the palatal /dj/ in the second. Other dialects do not so
> distinguish, pronouncing both /du/. I say /du/ and /dju/,
> respectively.
If I'm reading correctly, you pronounce "dew" (condensed atmospheric
moisture) and "Jew" the same way.
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