Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 13:37 |
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1. Who?
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.
On 1/29/07, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Kinetic wrote:
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> > Eric Christopherson wrote:
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> >> I'm not sure what you mean about <clique> -- is /kli:k/ disallowed?
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> > Nope, but /klik/ is, so rather than lengthen it, I change the vowel.
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> How do you pronounce things like <beak>, <creak>, <Greek>?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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