Re: Noo/Nih Yauk (was: Futurese)

Steg Belsky writes:
>
>"many americans" pronounce New York as Noo York?  I thought it was
>(almost?) all Americans, especially those of us who live there!  We don't
>pronounce it that way because we "can't" articulate [nj] or [J], but
>because that's just how we talk.
I pronounce New York as "Noo York" because well.....that's just how I
learned to say it growing up.

Aaaaaanyway....

initial [nj] is difficult for me, but not impossible. I have to make my
tongue work harder at it as well as with /ji/ but I can do it.

/N/ is easy for me now. It was a bit hard at first, but when I took a
Tagalog course, my teacher had us practice it with the five vowels. I have
it down to a science and even include it initially in Saalangal.




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