Re: The Business Memoir - the ``whom'' question


Brian M. Scott wrote:
On 17 Oct 2006 06:43:02 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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in sci.lang:

Mike Wright wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Sorry, I can't imagine "square" being [skwEr] or [skwE@].

Gleason's _An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics_ just arrived

(new?? is it still in print??? or is it lovingly marked up by some
long-ago student?)

yesterday, so I haven't learned anything yet, but [skwEr]
looks like my pronunciation. How do you say it?

<square> has the Mary vowel, [E] is the merry vowel. If
you, like so many Midwesterners, merge Mary and merry,
then you will _hear_ them the same (that's what phonemes
do), but I'm quite certain that /skwer/ in this system is
still [skw?r] (where <?> is because I STILL don't know
the phonetic representation of the Mary vowel, /eh/).

I'm with Mike on this one. If his variety is (in this
respect) the one I grew up with, <square> is an exact rhyme
with the first syllable of <merry>.

BUT WHAT IS ITS PHONETICS??

He's an MIMIM (as they say over at aue), which tells us nothing about
how it's realized!

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