Re: Powers that be were Re: Newbie says hi

> 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

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