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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Galveston
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:03:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-24, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> It's a bit more complicated, as Geoff Lindsey points out in
>> _English After RP_.  On the one hand, Standard Southern British has
>> replaced KIT with schwa in many words, e.g. the second vowel in
>> "foreign"
>
> yes
>
>>  and "arbitrary"
>
> no, not for me, unless by "second" you mean "third".

From the entry in the "mini dictionary" at the end of the book:

arbitrary
Newer: /ˈɑːbətriː/
Older: /ˈɑːbɪtrərɪ/

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de