Re: Elvish ideas ...

I'm checking my pronunciation again... there's definately a long u in my
"suit"... "assume" pronounced asu:m feels english but maybe with an
american accent to me... saying prezju:m that feels like a normal
pronunciation to me too... so I guess for "presume" I normally say
prezu:m, but prezju:m is an everyday pronunciation I must hear from
other people... and for me preZju:m is the snotty and affected but
correct pronunciation.

>CB = Cres Baets
>TM = Tristan McLeay
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>CB> In my dialect of english, suit sounds correct both as su:t and sju:t.
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>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".
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>CB> I would prefer asju:m over aSu:m,
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>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.
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>CB> presume I would tend to say as prezu:m
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>Yup.
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>CB> unless I was trying to sound very formal in which case it
>CB> becomes preZju:m
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>Again, never heard the [Z].  [z] or [zj].
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>TM> English vs Australian, I'd ashoom.
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>Heh.
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>-Mark
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