Re: Powers that be were Re: Newbie says hi

On Saturday 02 November 2002 9:40 pm, you wrote:
> > On the word 'stoopit', I guess that's an American way of making 'stupid'
> > stupid, because they can't just do 'stoopid' because that's the normal
> > pronunciation? The word seems to have essentially become 'stoopid'
> > /stu;p@d/ here all the time, even though 'student' is still /stSu;d@nt/.
>
> My dialect doesn't have /stSu:d@nt/ at all.  We say /stu;dent/, though in
> my case I pronounce the /t/ with aspiration, not as sloppily as to have /t/
> --> /tS/.  This is similar to the way my little brother, when he was
> learning to write, misspelled "tree" as "chree": because of the combination
> of aspirated t-initial and American semivocalic r, he percieved it with the
> wrong phonemes.  Anyway....
>
> > Tristan.
>
> Jake

And over here, 'Student' is pronounced /stju:d@nt/ (or /stju:dn=t/  or
/stjudn=?/)