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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 16:48
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>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=]. :)
An even worse version: "Is the name of the capital of the USA pronounced [nEv jOrk]?" Most people of course reply "No, it's [nju yo:k]" (Swedes tend to RPoid pronuncations) rather than "['wOs`IN,tOn]" (to approximate how I render "Washington" when talking Swedish). Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com