Re: Country names

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:11 AM
> Subject: Re: Country names
>
>
> > >No, everyone else can't say Australia properly, and it has a very
> > >obvious pronunciation from its spelling :P
> >
> > Obvious? In English? A language where one can findl orthography to
> make
> > _ghoti_ be pronounced [fIS]? :P
> >
>
>
> Only we can't.  |gh| is a diagraph found only at the end of syllables,
> for a
> start.
Holy ghost, I never realized that! :-)

>  And is only [f] in the tesseragraphs(is that right?) |augh|[&f]
> and
> |ough| [Qf], and [Vf].  |o| is only pronounced [I] in |women], and |ti|
> is,
> again, only prounounced [S] in the tesseragraph |tion|[S@n].
>
How do you pronounce "essential", "differential" et al?

                                           Andreas

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