Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Peter Bleackley wrote at 2003-10-07 09:13:21 (+0100)
 > Staving Mark J. Reed
 >
 > >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=/.
 >
 > Of course, it's only the Army and the RAF who pronounce it as
 > [leften&nt]. The Royal Navy says [l=ten&nt].
 >
I'd have expected those [e]s to be [E]s?