Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 6, 2003, 17:40 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
> 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=/.
What do you think that |u| is for, then? If it's not obviously /f/, then I
don't know what the world's coming to.
> ;-)
>
> -Mark
>
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