Re: English is a crazy language
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 13:59 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
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> No and no; "clothes" is idiosyncratically pronounced /klowz/, although
> some people use a spelling pronunciation /klowDz/. In eye-dialect,
> it is written "clo'es".
>
Well, that's strange. We've had quite a few different assistants during my
years of learning English, besides French teachers who were often considered
completely bilingual. I remember four assistants especially, two from the
United States, one from Britain and the other from Ireland. Well, one thing is
sure, they *all* used [D] in "clothes", without exception (that was a very
often used word, since I was often nearly the only one around who could master
[T] and [D], and it was often used as example. That's why I know very well that
they pronounced it with [D]). Would have we been unlucky enough to have only
hypercorrectors as assistants, especially from so many different places? i
somehow doubt so.
Christophe.
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