Re: French spelling scheme
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 1:29 |
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In a message dated 5/7/01 3:57:21 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:
<< Very few people IME have [iDr=] ~ [ajD=r] in free variation, unlike
"economics", where we might say it with initial /i/ in one sentence, /E/ in
the next...... >>
Whoa, I'm totally the opposite. I say [iDr=] or [ajDr=] almost depending
on where it comes in the sentence or who I'm speaking to or what kind of a
sentence it is. Whereas "economics" is always and without exception said
with an [E]. In fact, the initial [i] in that word has become abhorrent to
me, and I don't even say [ikAn@mi] anymore. And the same is true for most of
the people I associate with, if not all.
-David