Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

Philip Newton:
> On 5 Sep 02, at 13:00, bnathyuw wrote:
>
> > what _is_ very common is [tr\EIt] for [tr\EI] in the
> > word 'trait'
>
> The reminds me -- pronouncing "forte" (strong point) as if it were
> "forté" (/fOrtej/ or something like that).
That's one to add to the list, though it's a marginal example,
both because it's now standard (like lingeray in USA) and because
it results not from faulty foreignization but from confusing it
with the word _forte_ borrowed from Italian.

--And.

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