Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 7, 2004, 0:58 |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:04:12 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> My dictionary says of the pronunciation /'wEskIt/
Really with an /E/? I'd've said /'wes:k1t/ (with an ambisyllabic /s/ -- I
don't know the right symbol for that, but I've seen /p:/ used for the |pp|
in |happy|, so I fugured "why the hell not?") more matches what I'm used
to hearing, when I hear it, which isn't all that often.
Paul
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