This chapter about phonetics and phonology in New Zealand English is gonna come in so handy one day, I can feel it! It even has a silly joke in it, but it only works with a near-square merger (= the vowels in near and square sound the same) :3c
the joke
What animal can you drink?
- A bear!
Hay, Jennifer, and Margaret A. Maclagan. “Phonetics and Phonology.” New Zealand English. Edinburgh University Press, 2008, p. 27.
This chapter about phonetics and phonology in New Zealand English is gonna come in so handy one day, I can feel it! It even has a silly joke in it, but it only works with a near-square merger (= the vowels in near and square sound the same) :3c
the joke
Hay, Jennifer, and Margaret A. Maclagan. “Phonetics and Phonology.” New Zealand English. Edinburgh University Press, 2008, p. 27.