Re: Country names

----- 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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