From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 06:12:41 EST
At 02:50 -0800 2004-02-04, Peter Kirk wrote:
>As for Birmingham, I like the idea of analysing
>it as a monosyllable [b?m©Øm] although I would
>tend to think of the eng and the second m as
>syllabic, but there is then a near minimal pair
>with the interjection [mhm] meaning "no".
[mhm] is a positive for me. It is [m?m] which is negative.
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