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Re: English is a crazy language

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 11:18
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Wouldn't that be rather [klouDli]? Or do your dental and alveolar fricatives > collapse in front of some consonants?
No and no; "clothes" is idiosyncratically pronounced /klowz/, although some people use a spelling pronunciation /klowDz/. In eye-dialect, it is written "clo'es". -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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