Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 11:19 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> This leads to a riddle on which I even trapped a native
> Kentuckian: "How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky,
> ['luIsvIl] or ['luwivIl]?" People (especially Kentuckians)
> are so quick to say it's (normatively) ['luwivIl] that they
> are crushed by the reply, "No, it is pronounced [fr&Nkfr\=t]."
:) We have a similar joke in Sweden.
"How do you pronounce 'ananas' in English, ['&n@n@s] or
[@'n&n@s]?"
Now, most people reply ['&n@n@s] when of course it's rather
more like ['paIn,&pl=]. :)
||| daniel
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