Re: Two questions about Esperanto
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 8, 2004, 20:43 |
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On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:13:07 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
> RB> As they say in the north of England: "There's nowt so queer as folk".
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> Dumb question: how do you pronounce <nowt>? /naUt/?
I'll (attempt to) head off YAEPT here, by suggesting you use the same
diphthong as in 'now', whatever that may be in your own lect. AFAIK, that
should make you understood, should you ever need to use the word. Provided
of course that you collocutors internal lexicon contains the word 'nowt'
itself, which I shall leave up to the reader to judge on a case-by-case
basis.
Paul
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