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It's a beautiful language we've got (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A slightly more recognisable way of writing it would be "d'ya eat yet?" But "d'ya eat" becomes elided even further down to "dyeat", which ~~can be reanalysed as "jeet"~~. I'm not really sure what the phonotactics are behind "yet" becoming "chet", but in this sentence...yeah, it just kinda does.

edit: wait no I worked out why "chet". It's the /t/ at the end of "jeet". /tj/ becoming /tʃ/ is very common across English.

edit 2: to be more precise, dy (/dj/) becoming j (/dʒ/) is also yod coalescence. So it's all about yod coalescence + allision.