wine-whine mergers
wine-whine mergers is the plural of wine-whine merger.
Meaning of wine-whine merger
Noun
wine-whine merger (plural wine-whine mergers)
- A merger in which [ʍ] (the voiceless sound heard at the beginning of the word whine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomes [w] (the sound heard at the beginning of the word wine); in accents where this merger occurs, whine and wine are homophones.
- As was the case with the wine–whine merger, date from the early twentieth century show that southeastern Pennsylvania was subject to patterns of variation in pronunciation.2016, Mark L. Louden, Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, page 228
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- What is wine-whine mergers the plural of?
- Wine-whine mergers is the plural of wine-whine merger.
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