Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> But `going' is two syllables.
Ah, true.

> So, I would say, is /fai.@/ (even if the
> next word begins in a vowel: /fai.@.r{ut/ (`fire out'), although I don't
> know about your dialect, of course.
Yeah, that's why I said "in some dialects".  In mine, it's definitely a
tripthong, /ajr/, just like "iron" is /ajrn/, in my idiolect.  Altho,
other people say it differently, and my Mom tends to tease me about my
pronunciation of that word.  :-)

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