Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:19:48 -0500 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
writes:
> >         David (DigitalScream@aol) gets bonus points for being
> funny with his (E)
> > answer: "What the hell is an HTML?  I understand it to be a
> voiceless
> > pharyngeal fricative, followed by a voiceless interdental
> fricative, followed
> > by a high, back, unrounded, tense vowel, followed by a velar
> lateral of some
> > kind.  In fact, that could be a word in Arabic, almost...  In that
> case, yes,
> > I do like Arabic.  It was the first language I studied here at the
> > university.  Nothing but fond memories..." Been reading too much
> linguistic books lately?
> LOL! That could be a word in Tech as well, but the initial H would
> require
> an ultrashort vowel to follow (I ripped off the Hebrew rule of
> colored
> schwas after laryngeals), so the word would have to be |hatml|.
> ~Danny~
-

Hmm... i have a habit of pronouncing "HTML" as the shorter two-syllable
/hUtmAL/, with a somewhat /?/-afied /t/, somewhat rounded /A/, and
velarized /L/.
I also pronounce "www" /wUwUwU/.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "mew"

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