Re: Many consonants
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 11:11 |
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On Wednesday 07 November 2001 12:02, Muke Tever wrote:
> the cluster schr is (I
> stand to be corrected by our native Dutch spreakers) actually
> pronounced /sr/
Not by all speakers; I had endless arguments with my second-grade
teacher who insisted on [srEjv@n] (schrijven=to write) when I said,
and still say after thirty-six years, [sxREjv@].
It's mostly a regional thing, made into canon by speech therapists
whose teachers happened to be from that region.
Irina
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