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Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

From:Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>
Date:Saturday, February 1, 2003, 8:34
Right.  I suppose Joseph says it "un-for-tch-uhn-it-ly" or somesuch.  Where
"fortune" rhymes with "sun" (sort of).

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> -----Original Message----- > Behalf Of Tristan
> > 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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