Re: YAEPT: Voiceless TH in whether, worthy

On 11/12/06, Thomas Wier <trwier@...> wrote:
> Not really -- they do, afterall, live thousands of miles closer
> to Iberia than to Mexico or Argentina.
Sorry.  I meant that it was weird that they pronounce it Spanishly.
The particular subset of Spanishliness is only relevant inasmuch as
pronouncing it a-la American Spanish would probably sound pretty much
the same as the English rendering, modulo the voicing of the /z/.

> BTW, does anyone know what happened to John Cowan?
What do you mean?  He signed off this list, what, two years ago now?
He's still active otherwhere . . . for instance, you may read his blog
at http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>