• Wine-whine merger

    Pronunciation

    • RP IPA: /waɪnˈʍaɪn ËŒmɜː(r)dÊ’É™(r)/
    • RP

    Full definition of wine-whine merger

    Noun

    1. (phonology) A merger in which (the sound heard at the beginning of the word whine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomes (the sound heard at the beginning of the word wine); in accents where this merger occurs, whine and wine are homophones.
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