Re: CHAT: iron worlds (CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 7:37 |
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In a message dated 5/13/2001 12:42:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
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> Even the western dialects that use retroflex vowels, as Americans normally
> do, don't seem to have noticeably dissyllabic pronunciation, being just
> /w3_rldz/ or /wV_rldz/; and those dialects (AngloWelsh and some Scots
>
I only have disyllabic. And whenever I do hear it pronounced as one
syllable (e.g., in songs), the pronunciation tends to the standard
pronunciation of "word".
-David
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