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

jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, misread the original post.  At any rate, /ej/ is pretty much
nonexistent in final unstressed position, hence the /i/ in "karaoki"
(and "kamikaze", for that matter)

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