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From: Tony Xenos and company <ax823092@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: Chain Shift (was Tendency of Inflections to Disappear)
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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Kevin Wald wrote:
> 
> (The /aI/-/@I/ distinction really is phonemic for me, by the way; for
> me, "rider" and "spider" don't rhyme, since the former is /raIdR/ and
> the latter is /sp@IdR/. As a result, "Little Miss Muffet" never quite
> worked for me, poetically.)

Spider rimes with cider, but not spied 'er which rimes with rider and
beside 'er in central Ohio.

Craig

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