Re: USAGE: Language revival

On 1 Dec, Patrick Dunn wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> nicole perrin wrote:
>> > haha, I always say /'tjysdei/
>>
>> With a rounded front vowel?  Interesting.  I say [tjuzdej] (and
>> [wInzdej])
>>
>> > I pronounce all the letters in badminton.
>>
>> As opposed to ... ?
>
>So do I, but I pronounce the nt as a glotal stop.  ;)
>
I also pronounce the "nt" as a glottal stop, but I
don't pronounce the "n" in the middle of the word.
In fact, until reading this thread, I hadn't
even realized that there  _is_  an "n" there!
As Sherlock Holmes was reputed to have said to
Dr. Watson: "You see, but you don't observe!"  How true!
(Actually, I think that I pronounce it closer to
[b&:mI?n], dropping the "d", but lengthening the preceding
vowel to compensate, and dropping the final vowel, leaving
a syllabic "n".)
    BTW, for what it's worth, I pronounce "Tuesday"
as [tuzdej] and "Wednesday" as [wEnsdej].

Dan Sulani
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