And Rosta wrote:
> I try not to read English pronunciation threads, because when I do,
> I can seldom keep myself from participating...
Agreed! :-)
> lj, though, is a different story. As far as I can tell, it is
> just disappearing over time, so that hardly anybody nowadays
> would say /slju:/ for 'slew' (the noun, not the verb), while no
> young person is likely to say 'lure' with a /lj/
How about "lewd" and "lurid"?? I had a friend at school who'd spent several
years in British schools-- he got a terrible ribbing over here for saying
[ljud], [ljUrId]