Re: YEAPT: f/T (was Re: Other Vulgar Latins?)

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> > >> infuse enthuse
> > >
> > > Ditto. [I] vs. [E].
> >
> > I have, and quite often hear initial /I/ in both cases. Indeed, it's a
> > fairly general case IME that a lot of |in-| and |en-| words are found with
> > initial /In/. See also the frequent need to remind people of the
> > difference between |ensure| and |insure|.
>
> Yup.  I have a very lax, almost schwalike, [I] for both of those -
> except in careful speech, when "enthuse" gets a clear [E].
In the RPoidal English they taught us in school, we were told to pronounce alot
of |e|'s as [I]; canonical example "ickonomy". Being a lazy sort, I've gone
pack to pronouncing [E] and [I] based on spelling (thus "eckonomy" and
differentiating 'tween "ensure" and "insure").

My English dictionary gave both pronunciations for 'economy', but it has since
fallen to pieces. :(

                                                           Andreas