Re: syllable importance
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 19, 2004, 19:10 |
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At 14:59 19.2.2004, Steg Belsky wrote:
>Interesting... because "frazbazzlest" sounds perfectly fine to me. To
>be specific, it sounds like some silly (but perfectly legal)
>pseudo-HipHop adjective in a television commercial. "It's the
>frazbazzlest!"
>
>
>-Stephen (Steg)
> "shizzle my nizzle"
Is it only I who tend to read _zz_ as /ts/ even in
an English context? Too much Italian in my backpack
I'm sure.
/BP -- who has discovered that my /r/ has a [z] allophone! :)
/BP 8^)
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