Re: He, she and it against hem
sanlosinst@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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_.
Sorry, let me correct myself. The pronunciation of _that_ is much more
commonly [æ:?] in Estuary English.
Samuel
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