Re: Woody or tinny?

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Bjorn Kristinsson wrote:
> > Two words of English I particularly dislike are 'queue'
>
> How is that word pronounced?  Is it /kju/?  I've heard /kjui/ before,
> but I'm not sure if that's the word they were using.
>
> At any rate, I definitely dislike the spelling of that word.
/kju/ for me, at least. I like the sound of it a lot, but not the
spelling.

> Rural is the ugliest word, especially in certain dialects, where it's
> something like /rr=r@l/ or even worse /r=rl=/.  It doesn't even *sound*
> like a word.
I'd have to agree. I have /r=rl=/, I think. I can't really tell.

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Robert