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Re: Metathesis?

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 10:34
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:23:53 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> [tSIpolti]? What's kind of pronounciation is that? > > I'd expected the naive English prounciation to be [tSIpowtl=] or > thereabouts.
Various TV ads seem to be giving [tSi\potlej], at least to my ear. My native intuition would be [tSipQtl=] if I thought it was a native word, though it doesn't look very much like one. Paul

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