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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