ASEAN — Gp6 : 875
- MMal : male from Malaysia, ethnically Chinese
- MLao : male from Laos
- FPhil : female from the Philippines
MLao : you know er at the time that erm (.) tsk (.) tsunami occurs there (.) there was some problem in my country (0.9)
FPhil : mm
MMal : what problem
MLao : yeah we’ve some problem we have big holes (.) in in some areas
MMal : horns? sorry?
MLao : hole. you know hole[t]?
FPhil : what hone?
MLao : yeah big hole
MMal : @@
FPhil : what’s a hone
MMal : sorry
MLao : <spel> h o l e </spel> something like this
FPhil : yeah
MMal : holes?
MLao : yeah
MMal : OH you mean a HOLE in the GROUND
MLao : yeah
Intended Word: hole
Heard as: horn, hone
Discussion: MLao has [n] rather than [l] at the end of this word. Though he realises the others do not understand him, he does not know how to fix the problem, and he tries putting a [t] on the end. Finally he resorts to spelling it out.