Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>

| << I hear "hmoke" for "smoke" and "hleep" for "sleep", indicating an s>h shift

|     All of these and things like /ftring/ for "string" I have never heard by
| anyone in my entire life.  Is this a regional dialect?  Why pronounce them
| like that?  It seems to me like it would be more difficult than the way
| you're supposed to pronounce it.  Is it easier for you all?

It's a regional thing probably.  (Texas/US South.)  And it's just the s>h shift,
nothing like /ftring/.


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