Re: English notation
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 1, 2001, 7:05 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> The second syllable of the following words are all pronounced differently
> in most (all?) varieties of English: apparent, deterrent, concurrent.
I have [&] in the first and a syllabic rhotic in the last two, which are
perfect rhymes for me. Lots of my fellow-countrymen use [ej] in the
first, though.
When reading "C" language out loud, I seem to be unusual for saying
[tSAR] rather than [kejR] for "char".
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
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