Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 14:23 |
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:24:19PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> 'fOst@z. Ostr&lj&n f@ 'bij@.
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> That's a funny pronunciation of 'Australian', looks decidedly American.
> And 'beer', too.
Nah. The American pronunciation of "Australian" has a long A /ej/ in the
middle; it sounds to me like the Hollywood Australian accent replaces it
with the short A /&/. As to "beer", in the rhotic American
dialects (which the vast majority are), it's /bI`r\/.
-Mark
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