Re: USAGE: Language revival

John Cowan wrote:
>
> "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/.
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That's a hypercorrection?  What is it "supposed" to be?  (I've always
said /OftIn/, or something like that)


Nicole