Re: CHAT: ConScripts

2007/8/6, R A Brown <ray@...>:
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > On 5.8.2007 John Vertical wrote:
> >
> >> (Also, why would that /s/ become dental, anyway? Isn't English /t/
> >> alveolar?)
> >
> >
> > True, I was thinking of cases like /p&Ts/
>
> Do you mean /pADz/    :)
>
> ...and don't those who have /p&T/ for the singular, have /p&Dz/ for the
> plural?
>
> --
> Ray
To be prescriptive, shouldn't the "correct" way be the former? After
all, there's no interposing vowel that got deleted through the ages.

2007/8/6, Douglas Koller <laokou@...>:
> /pADz/ reminds me of an episode of "The Avengers" (the Tara years), where Steed
> shouts, "Tap dancing!" /t&p dAnsIN/. /t&p d&nsIN/, okay, or to fulfill the
> British stereotype, /tAp dAnsIN/, but /t&p dAnsiN/ (try typing that three
> times fast)?
>
> Kou
>
/tAp dAnsIN/?? I'm quite sure no Brit pronounces it [tAp]. In fact,
/t&p dAnsiN/ is how Brits say it.

Eugene

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