Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

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

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