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Poccasin English has significantly less phonemic consonants than other standard varieties of English.

* [[w:Th-stopping|Th-stopping]]: /θ ð/ are realized as [[w:Alveolar stop|alveolar stops]] /t d/.

* [[w:Th-stopping|Th-stopping]]: /θ ð/ are realized as [[w:Alveolar stop|alveolar stops]] /t d/, so ''day'' and ''they'' become homophones.

** This is a common feature of many other standard varieties of English, such as [[w:Nigerian English|Nigerian]], [[w:Indian English|Indian]] and [[w:Caribbean English|Caribbean English]].

* Lack of aspiration: Although not phonemic in English, plosives are usually still aspirated at the beginning of words in most varieties of English. This is however altogether absent in Poccasin English apart from in very high-class dialects.

** A Poccasin English speaker who strongly aspirates their initial plosives in order to deliberately sound high class or distinguish themselves from working class speakers is called a ''puffer'', ~~pronounced~~ /~~ˈpafər~~/.

** A Poccasin English speaker who strongly aspirates their initial plosives in order to deliberately sound high class or distinguish themselves from working class speakers is called a ''puffer''.

* V-stopping: /v/ is realized as /b/ in all positions, so ''bat'' and ''vat'' become homophones.

* Variability of /f/: /f/ is fairly unstable in even standard Poccasin English; the most common realizations vary from the [[w:Bilabial fricative|bilabial]] /ɸ/ to true [[w:Labiodental fricative|labiodental]] /f/, but it has also been recorded to range as far back as a [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|glottal]] /h/ or may be omitted entirely, especially in casual, colloquial speech.

Another notable phonological feature of Poccasin English is, similarly to [[Bemé]], the lack of phonemic [[w:Voiced fricative|voiced fricatives]] such as the /z/ or /ʒ/ in ''zoo'' and ''vision''.

* Devoicing of /z/: /z/ is devoiced to /s/, so ''zoo'' and ''Sue'' become homophones.

* Affricatisation of /ʒ/: /ʒ/ is [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|affricatised]] to /dʒ/, so ''ager'' and ''Asia'' become homophones.

The [[w:Rhoticity in English|rhoticity]] of Poccasin English is variable; see the [[#Rhoticity|corresponding section]] for more.

===Vowels===

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The status of long /iː/ as a phoneme is debated; although traditionally considered distinct from short /i/ by linguists, modern scholars have found that a growing number of primarily younger, working-class speakers have begun incorporating a {{sc|kit}}-{{sc|fleece}} merger, so that {{l|en|fit}} and {{l|en|feet}} are pronounced the same. However, a lack of such a merger is still generally considered the standard pronunciation.

===Rhoticity===

==References==

[[Category:Conlangs]] [[Category:Dialects]]

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 Poccasin English has significantly less phonemic consonants than other standard varieties of English.
-* [[w:Th-stopping|Th-stopping]]: /θ ð/ are realized as [[w:Alveolar stop|alveolar stops]] /t d/.
+* [[w:Th-stopping|Th-stopping]]: /θ ð/ are realized as [[w:Alveolar stop|alveolar stops]] /t d/, so ''day'' and ''they'' become homophones.
 ** This is a common feature of many other standard varieties of English, such as [[w:Nigerian English|Nigerian]], [[w:Indian English|Indian]] and [[w:Caribbean English|Caribbean English]].
 * Lack of aspiration: Although not phonemic in English, plosives are usually still aspirated at the beginning of words in most varieties of English. This is however altogether absent in Poccasin English apart from in very high-class dialects.
-** A Poccasin English speaker who strongly aspirates their initial plosives in order to deliberately sound high class or distinguish themselves from working class speakers is called a ''puffer'', pronounced /ˈpafər/.
+** A Poccasin English speaker who strongly aspirates their initial plosives in order to deliberately sound high class or distinguish themselves from working class speakers is called a ''puffer''.
+* V-stopping: /v/ is realized as /b/ in all positions, so ''bat'' and ''vat'' become homophones.
+* Variability of /f/: /f/ is fairly unstable in even standard Poccasin English; the most common realizations vary from the [[w:Bilabial fricative|bilabial]] /ɸ/ to true [[w:Labiodental fricative|labiodental]] /f/, but it has also been recorded to range as far back as a [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|glottal]] /h/ or may be omitted entirely, especially in casual, colloquial speech.
+Another notable phonological feature of Poccasin English is, similarly to [[Bemé]], the lack of phonemic [[w:Voiced fricative|voiced fricatives]] such as the /z/ or /ʒ/ in ''zoo'' and ''vision''.
+* Devoicing of /z/: /z/ is devoiced to /s/, so ''zoo'' and ''Sue'' become homophones.
+* Affricatisation of /ʒ/: /ʒ/ is [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|affricatised]] to /dʒ/, so ''ager'' and ''Asia'' become homophones.
+The [[w:Rhoticity in English|rhoticity]] of Poccasin English is variable; see the [[#Rhoticity|corresponding section]] for more.
 ===Vowels===
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 The status of long /iː/ as a phoneme is debated; although traditionally considered distinct from short /i/ by linguists, modern scholars have found that a growing number of primarily younger, working-class speakers have begun incorporating a {{sc|kit}}-{{sc|fleece}} merger, so that {{l|en|fit}} and {{l|en|feet}} are pronounced the same. However, a lack of such a merger is still generally considered the standard pronunciation.
+===Rhoticity===
 ==References==
 <references />
 [[Category:Conlangs]] [[Category:Dialects]]