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Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Thursday, February 1, 2007, 3:58
On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 1. Who?
Kinetic.
> 2. Why? I don't think the pronunciation of those words varies much in > the Anglophonic world. -[ik] or maybe -[i:k]. Although "creek" has > a local variant [kr\Ik] in many parts of the US, I don't think the > shortening of the vowel extends to other -/ik/ words.
He said /klik/ is disallowed in his idiolect, so I wondered about other /ik/ words. It turns out I had misunderstood his point and his phonemics - he thinks of the vowel in <beak> et al. as /i:/, rather than /i/.
> > > On 1/29/07, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote: >> On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Kinetic wrote: >> >> > Eric Christopherson wrote: >> > >> >> I'm not sure what you mean about <clique> -- is /kli:k/ >> disallowed? >> > >> > Nope, but /klik/ is, so rather than lengthen it, I change the >> vowel. >> >> How do you pronounce things like <beak>, <creak>, <Greek>? >> > > > -- > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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