Re: USAGE: Language revival

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

>         I should have thought of this one (by the way, there *are* French
> people that pronounce /wanjo~/ instead of /onjo~/. I think it's more a
> matter of dialect than a matter of phonemic reading).
There are English-speakers who pronounce a /t/ in "often", too, but I don't
know that I'd call that a dialect exactly.  It may represent a hypercorrection,
like the American usual pronunciation of "nephew" as /nEfju/, instead of the
historically correct /nEvju/ (still preserved in the U.K., I think?), since
"ph" in essentially all other words is /f/.

> > Trivium: "Straight" and its immediate derivatives are the only English
> > words with "aigh"; it's pronounced [ej].
> >
>
>         I learned it with [E]. Is it a possible pronunciation in some dialect?
Maybe some, but I've never heard it.

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