| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 3:49 |
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:> >And if I made up a word like "Manderine" (a Manderine orange tangerine) > >how come we know to pronounce it "Mandereen"? > > Actually it could have a long i, on analogy with "Madeline".YAEPT Alert: around here, all "Madeline"s pronounce their name with a short /I/ or schwa. -Mark
| Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |