Re: Country names
| From: | Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 12, 2003, 21:35 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Robert B Wilson wrote:
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> >>We here say /@stSr\&iL@/ where /L/=[j], [lj] or [li].
> >>
> >
> >you say 'istrailyih'? :P
> >
> No, everyone else can't say Australia properly, and it has a very
> obvious pronunciation from its spelling :P
Of course: [aws"t4alja]. Obvious, not?
Well, in my Ideolectical Chibchombian English it would become
[Os`"t`r`ejlj@], or something like that. Aussie/Ozzie would be ["OzI].
(not sure if that [t`r`] is actually a slightly palatized retroflex trill)
Of course, I am not a native English Speaker.
-- Carlos Th
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