| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 8:13 |
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]. Pete
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