Re: Orthography help needed

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:13:15PM +0100, Tim May wrote:

> Yes, of course.  I'm aware of "with", and I pronounce it as you do.
> What I meant by "unusual" is that it's the only example I can think
> of.  The point I was trying to make is that there's no orthographic
> convention to represent final /D/ in these situations; <with> is the
> exception, and is presumably able to survive as such precisely because
> it's a common word.
Soothe vs. sooth.  Seems like the final e might be the orthographic
convention, except that would only work with a strong vowel before the
'th', wouldn't it?

Amanda

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