Re: Metathesis?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 11:01 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:23:53 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
> wrote:
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>> [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.
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> My native intuition would be [tSipQtl=] if I thought it was a native
> word, though it doesn't look very much like one.
>
>
'course, if it's Nahuatl in origin (which it looks like it could be),
the original pronunciation would be [tSipotKe]. If it's straight
Spanish, [tSipotle].