Re: English is a crazy language
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 11:18 |
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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".
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