Re: OT: YAEPT: karaoke (was: Re: new Klingon spelling)

Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Muke Tever wrote:
> > Same for the final "e" sound.  The only final short vowels allowed in
> > [standard American] English are schwa and "short o" (the one in "saw"), so
> > the "e" gets read as long (same in "sake").
>
> Except in compounds like the days of the week
Eh?  I make them end in /di/, and my wife calls me a gangster because
I say /'tuzdi/ instead of /tjuzdei/ as she does.  In neither case is
there a final short vowel.

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