Re: shirt in Hindi

Thanks very much to Ranjit Mathews and Neeraj Mathur for explaining to me
what epenthetic vowels and consonants are and what some of the processes
were that I had observed in Bowling Green. I'm not sure whether the following
is an example and, if it is, whether it is an example of an epenthetic vowel
or an epenthetic consonant. Namely, when I spoke to a Tamil speakers about
mathematics and we needed to use a vowel as a variable, e.g. "let A denote the
group of all roots of unity of order prime to 7", he would invariably pronounce
the name of the vowel A as "yay". I don't remember whether this affected all
vowels.

Also, what was the Great Vowel Shift? I assume that doesn't refer to what
is currently taking place around the Great Lakes, with words like "bus"
starting to be pronounced like "bos". I heard about the Great Lakes Vowel
Shift recently either on Nightline or on public radio.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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