Date:  Sun, 28 Nov 1993 14:30:37 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Mail Order / Pin-Pen / LAGS



> (and /hw/-users), I was distressed to find both /en/ and /hw/ creeping into

> my speech unbidden. It really took some effort to repress them. The latter

> tends to recur whenever I am doing phonology in an English linguistic class,

> and model the <which>:<witch> contrast. As an interesting indication that



Odd though it may be, I've always had /hw/. But I've certainly never had

the /En/:/In/ contrast -- or at least not until these very recent vocalic

oddities I've noticed.



I think I've probably told before about how for several years when I first

started teaching linguistics courses I gave "then" and "thin" as a useful

minimal pair in helping the students hear voiced/voiceless th. Suddenly

it dawned on me one day that that wouldn't work for everybody -- although

it did, of course, work for most of my students.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)