From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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Date: | Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 11:23 |
Staving Tristan McLeay:>Joe wrote: >> >>My 'huge' is definitely [hju:dZ] - [Cju:dZ] sounds rather >>old-fashioned. And I substitute [x] for [C](and [X] for [x], though not >>nearly as consistently), which I'm told occurs in some dialects. > >By 'huge' is definitely [hj...] too, but my 'queue' is often much more >like [kC...] than [kj...]. But not always.I seem to remember a childish mispronunciation as [fju:dZ)] or even [pf)u:dZ)]. After learning Japanese, it doesn't seem so bizarre. Pete