Re: USAGE: Language revival
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 2:26 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> FFlores wrote:
> > > Incidentally, I read that "forehead" was once pronounced something like
> > > /forId/, with the h being re-introduced.
> >
> > That's how I was taught also! It seemed very strange to me at first,
> > until I got accustomed. Now you tell me it's wrong again? :)
>
> I say /forhId/ or /forhEd/ (/I/ and /E/ tend to alternate in some words
> like "head" and "bed" in my idiolect). I thought that's how most people
> said it?
You obviously don't watch enough of the stuffy old
Masterpiece Theatre reruns on PBS. :)
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