Re: Elvish ideas ...
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 14:39 |
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CB = Cres Baets
TM = Tristan McLeay
CB> In my dialect of english, suit sounds correct both as su:t and sju:t.
That'd be just [sut] or [sjut] here. No longer than that vowel
sound is in any other word, and shorter than it is in e.g. "soon".
CB> I would prefer asju:m over aSu:m,
I have never even heard an [S] in <assume>. It's always either an [sj]
or aplain [s]. And as with most of the [ju]/[u] distinctions, the former
sounds somewhat snotty/affected to me.
CB> presume I would tend to say as prezu:m
Yup.
CB> unless I was trying to sound very formal in which case it
CB> becomes preZju:m
Again, never heard the [Z]. [z] or [zj].
TM> English vs Australian, I'd ashoom.
Heh.
-Mark
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