Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 1, 2003, 8:10 |
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On 2003.02.01 19:05 Joseph Fatula wrote:
> From: "Sarah Marie Parker-Allen" <lloannna@...>
> Subject: Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
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> > Though I can't offhand think of any small words where "tune"
> > sounds like "tchoon..."
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> I looked over Tristan's message, and he didn't use any spelling like
> this.
> When would "tune" sound like "tchoon"?
One of my examples was 'unfortunately', which has the root 'fortune',
in which '-tune' makes 'tchoon' in most, if not every, English dialect.
Tristan.
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