Re: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern

Robert Hailman wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Raymond Brown wrote:
> > > I remember one old timer in the village Church choir pronounced that
>last
> > > word disyllabically thus: /'wVr@ldz/
> >
> > That's not normal?  I say it /worl=dz/ or /wor@ldz/ (not sure which is
> > correct, but disyllabic at any rate), I never realized that that was not
> > normal ...
>
>I remember years ago I heard that "world" only had one syllable, and I
>remember that confused me, because as far as I could tell, it had 2.
>
>I don't know how I pronounced it at the time, though. Now it's
>monosyllabic, for me. /wVrldz/ or some such.
NO natives pronounce it [w@(r)ld] like I learnt in school?

                                                  Andreas
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