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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Monday, March 19, 2001, 5:57
> > Hmm, but I think some final preposition use might be more dubious: > > How many tables have you looked for my cat under? >
I'm afraid I wouldn't call that dubious, and that is how I'm likely to under (but I'd be more likely to write 'How many tables have you looked under for my cat')
> I don't think most of them are too hard (although I might be getting it > wrong...) > > My English already has /stS/ in it ('strength, strain'), /StS/ isn't too far > off. [But then, the Polish sound isn't exactly /S/, is it...]
As does mine, except more frequently: both in strength, etc, and student, etc, although the latter is really an English ch, but the former is suttly different, I can't explain how, exactly. It flows better, I guess. Tristan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com