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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Chain Shift (was Tendency of Inflections to Disappear)
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 21:19:10 -0500
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In article <320931E9.144E@students.wisc.edu>, Megan Tremelling
<mstremel@students.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Aaron J. Dinkin wrote:
> 
> > Not to people who don't have a phonemic distinction between the two (so
> > "bother" rhymes with "father", of all bizarre things), which I believe
> > includes those who record country music (or at least the southern accents
> > they affect for the purpose), and probably a fair chunk of those who
> > listen to it.
> 
> And a few who wouldn't even at gunpoint.

Yes, but they were not relevant to the discussion of phones in country music.

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

