Re: He, she and it against hem

António Marques wrote:
> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> >> Incidentally, can anyone give a sensible spelling for «'em», now we
> >> know it's not a reduction of 'them'?
>
> > and I wouldn't be in a hurry to rule out the analysis of it as a
> > reduction of "them," today. My argument would be a lot stronger if I
> > could rustle up an example of [æt] for "that", but right now that's
> > not happening.
>
> In fact, english doesn't seem to exhibit a lot of reductions of th-.

Estuary English (a lower class dialect spreading out from London)
usually changes voiced _th_ [D] to [v], but in the initial position it
is more common to drop it entirely. So it's common to here [Is], [æt],
[Aj] for _this_, _that_, _they_.

Samuel

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