Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
| From: | James Landau <neurotico@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 15:15 |
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In a message dated 2/3/2003 3:36:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:
> James Landau scripsit:
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> > [A]m I going to hear someone tell me they put /'krautOnz/ in their salad?
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> Why not? Those little nuggets of dried cabbage really spruce up iceberg
> lettuce!
>
Ah, you're thinking of kraut-/Onz/, something with cabbage as in sauerKRAUT
in them, aren't you?
BTW, whenever someone doesn't understand how to pronounce my name, I tell
them the "au" is as in "sauerkraut".
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