Re: Country names

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:
> |ti|
> > > is,
> > > again, only prounounced [S] in the tesseragraph |tion|[S@n].
> > >
> >
> > How do you pronounce "essential", "differential" et al?
> >
>
> Ok, only in |tiV|.  Happy?
Well, yes. I think one could narrow down the contexts where it happens
slightly, but I leave the attempt to someone more into the fine workings of
English orthography.

                                                                Andreas