Re: USAGE: Language revival
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 15:28 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Incidentally, I read that "forehead" was once pronounced something like
> /forId/, with the h being re-introduced.
/fOrId/. I say this, and my wife tells me it's insufferably pretentious.
Of course, /tuzdi/ is insufferably lowbrow. So I can't win. :-)
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