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Re: Country names

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 5:57
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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. 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].

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