Re: more English orthography

On 18 May, Nik Taylor wrote:

>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> How about.....someone took a deep /dr\Ot/ of their drink.
>
>/dr&ft/ is the usual form.  Your pronunciation /drOt/, as far as I can
>tell, is an invented pronunciation; certainly my dictionary has /dr&ft/.
    My dictionary has /dr&fts/ for "draughts", the British version of what
Americans call "checkers";  but never having
bothered to look up the word or ever having heard someone from
Britain use it, I always thought it was pronounced /drOts/.
This is probably an example of "spelling pronounciation".
    I'm with Steg, though, on the use of /drOt/ for the big swallow,
even if it isn't in the dictionary; but I also
 use only  /dr&ft/  for the type of beer.
The following seems perfectly normal to me:

        "I took a big /drOt/ of /dr&ft/ beer."

(Of course, nowadays I more tend to sip 'arak!  :-)   )

Dan Sulani
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