Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
| From: | Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 21:50 |
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--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> > * lingeré
>
> This is the standard and universal U.S.
> pronunciation; although m-w.com
> lists a pronunciation ending in [i], I have never
> heard anyone use it,
> and strongly suspect it does not exist.
I vary between [e] and [i]. Some other Forn words with
that funny pointy bit over the e vary similarly. /krEm
bruli/ comes to mind and /Epi/ (Sorry Christophe, etc.
for mangling la langue d'amour (/lar l&Ngju di emor/)!
;) Fiancé(e) doesn't seem to vary this way: it's
always [e].
> John Cowan
Padraic.
=====
parla, mays ben parla; et pharleir becko il maboun.
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