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Re: Country names

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 15:47
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 8:46 AM
Subject: 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! :-)
Yes, I forgot about them...
> > 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? >
Ok, only in |tiV|. Happy?

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