Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 10:38 |
"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Hm. I spell both of those "mouth", but come to think of it I do pronounce
> the noun with a [T] and the verb with a [D].
I don't think I've ever seen "mouth(e)" written in the present tense,
only a few times in the past "mouthed", which would be expected with
either spelling. :-) I put the -e there by analogy with forms like
"breathe" and "bathe", and also to distinguish from "mouth". :-)
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