Re: Cloak room... x: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

Quoting Peter Collier <petecollier@...>:

> --- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Mark J. Reed writes:
> > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Henrik Theiling
> > <theiling@...> wrote:
> > >>  BTW, I pronounce['Toilette'] /to'lEt@/, because
> > it's German! :-)
> > >
> > > ... so what happened to the <i>?
> >
> > It's a germanised form from the French /twalEt/.  No
> > /i/ there.
> >
> > **Henrik
>
>
> It always sounds to me more like /toi)'lEte/
> (/tOy)'lEt@/ ?)... Are my anglic ears playing tricks
> on me, then?
FWIW, /tOy)'lEt@/ is how I heard it (and said it) when I lived in Germany.

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Andreas Johansson