Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 6, 2003, 17:17 |
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Heather Fleming wrote:
> Except for "lieutenant," which everyone
> knows ought to be pronounced "leftenant" except for the backwards
> yokels who pronounce it the American way... ^_^
Don't be absurd. There's no "f" anywhere in "lieutenant", so /,lEf'tEn@nt/
is a terrible pronunciation, not at all as obvious as, say,
the American pronunciation of "colonel" as /'k=r\nl=/.
;-)
-Mark
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