Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 18, 2006, 18:48 |
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John Vertical wrote:
> Well, nothing L1-shattering, but from time to time I've realized that I've
> been completely mispronouncing various English words ... eg. <demon> with
> /i/, <devil> with /E/ and not the other way 'round.
Eh?? nothing wrong there, standard: demon ['dimn=], devil ['dEvl=].
Or did you mean to say that you pronounce ['dEmn=], ['divl=] ??
My only boo-boos seem to be in spelling-- in my 900-page PhD diss. I had to
correct several instances of "lizzard" and "diminuitive", "diminuition" (in
addition to skipping a page number). Aargh, in the days of manual
typewriters. The White-Out T people loved me.
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