Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:38:01 +0000

From: Aaron Drews aaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.ED.AC.UK

Subject: Re: Wednesday with a [d]



On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, David A. Johns wrote:



}At 04:20 PM 11/12/97 -0700, you wrote:

}

} The ordinary pronunciation of Wednesday in Ireland (both in

}the

} Republic and in Ulster) retains the [d] as an unreleased consonant,

} followed by a vocalic [n]: Ulster [wEdnzde], Republic [wEdnzdi].

}

}Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. The friend who

}pronounces the first [d] grew up in West Virginia, but her father is

}from Ulster and her mother from Scotland.



The [d] is also pronounced here in Scotland, so she probably heard

it from both of her parents.

Aaron



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