Re: USAGE: Language revival

Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> At 10:33 am -0300 30/11/99, FFlores wrote:
> >Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> 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? :)
>
> No, no - it's not wrong!
>
> For most of my life most people in England (where English BTW originated
> :)  said /'fOrId/.  The /h/ is a horrid innovation, that has become
> increasingly more common in the last 10 to 20 years, introduced by people
> who want to sound correct  ;)
>
        It must have spread in English teaching for non-native English
speakers, because I learned /fO:hEd/.

> Ray.
>
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