FFlores wrote:
> As you now, the "h" is silent in Spanish in all positions.
> It doesn't even count for syllable division and can't break
> a diphthong. Nevertheless, I constantly hear people doing
> something strange to words like "anhelar" and "inhibir"
> with a mid-syllable <h>. Most of them pronounce /an.ne'lar/
> and /in.ni'Bir/. In some cases, I think I've heard a /N/
> in there. A sound is being pronounced just because of the
> written form of a word. Also, the middle <h> in "prohibir"
> tends to break the diphthong.
I remeber several years ago, a friend noticed I pronounced "tri=E1ngulo" =
as
/tri'aNgulo/ instead of the diphthong /'trjaNgulo/. I guess I'm inconcio=
usly
marking the preffix. I still pronounce it that way, as well as /pro.i'Bi=
Do/
(4 syllabes) and like.
> --Pablo Flores
>
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