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Re: OT: English -uice

From:Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Date:Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:36
--- Mark Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

> "Juice" is second-nature, but "sluice" still throws > me. Makes me want to say /sluwIs/ or something.
Hold on, you mean it's _not_ pronounced [sluwIs]? How's it really pronounced, then? [slu:s]? ...And I've been saying *that* for how many years (well over a decade, since I first encountered the word in print)? ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de

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