Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 22, 2002, 7:13 |
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At 15:00 2002-09-20 +0100, bnathyuw wrote:
[Europeans hearing of Illinois]
>and if they had, they'd call it /IlI'nwa/
Only if all Eoropeans were French, which FBOW is not the case.
A quick check with my stepson gave ["il:i%nOz\s]! :-)
For the record I've known about Chicago [s\i"kQ:go] all my life, since my
grandparents used to live there, but I learned of Illinois only when I saw
"Blues Brothers"!
/BP 8^)>
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