Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H-cluster reductions

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The result of the debate was keep. Kelly Martin 02:55, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] H-cluster reductions

This page was nominated for deletion by someone using the IP address 205.188.116.71 but was not put up at VfD. I'm completing the nomination process, but I vote to keep, as mentioned below. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 21:41, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This article says that some people say yooj for huge. That's not true. Only lazy people say that. That's a mispronunciation, not a dialectal feature. 205.188.116.201 June 14, 2005

• Speedy keep, no valid grounds for deletion given. As for the linguistically naive statement above, I'm not even going to dignify it with a response. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 21:07, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP This shouldn't even be listed here. Lachatdelarue (talk) 21:57, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Looks fine to me. Ambush Commander 22:58, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment WP:NOR I'm not sure where this falls. Outside of wikimirrors, this appears on one site. I'll admit, though, that this is a narrow field of study that's not likely to see a lot of press. --Xcali 03:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's hard to google for because they're not always called "H-cluster reductions". Some people call them "Glide cluster reductions", and some people don't group them together at all, just calling them the "wine-whine merger" and the "yew-hew merger" (or some other set of words that illustrate the point), and some people don't call them by any name at all, but just talk about the loss of /h/ before /w/ and/or /j/. But they're definitely both notable phenomena in the phonology and sociolinguistics of English. The loss of /h/ before /l/, /n/, and /r/ isn't so notable; it's just one of the many sound changes that happened during the course of Middle English. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 06:24, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete original research. JamesBurns 06:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this is a genuine subject. Maybe it'll never make it to the evening news on tv, but this is an encyclopedia. Bambaiah 13:20, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

I see that another legit article from Category:Phonology has been put on VfD by a user from IP number 205.188.166.xxx — Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Reduction (linguistics) Bambaiah 05:16, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Not always called by a consistent name, but if I studied it in an intro linguistics class it belongs here. --Laura Scudder | Talk 15:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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