Re: <c>, was: Re: help! phonology...
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 4:07 |
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:51:13PM -0500, Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> I hate <k>. I think it's an ugly spiky letter and I refuse to use it if I
> can possibly avoid it. I almost always use <c> for /k/.
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Eeek. Whenever I see <c>, I think [tS], or, depending on my gut feeling
based on the appearance of the word, I might think [s], but never [k].
Which means I'm one of the offenders who pronounce "celeborn" with [s]
instead of [k]... *ducks* :-P
T