Re: USAGE: Language revival

John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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.  :-)
>

haha, I always say /'tjysdei/, and once a little kid said to me "What
does /chusdei/ mean?" - I couldn't stop laughing.  All my friends
though, think I speak a very strange dialect of English.  I pronounce
all the letters in badminton.

and what is /wEskIt/? (I'm totally clueless)

Nicole

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