Re: English syllable structure

/nik@'rAgW@/ for me

and nope, I hear /pwErto/ and say that myself when I speak spanish, but when I
speak in English, as in the sentence I'm going to Puerto Rico in December /ajm
goIn@
por4@ riko n= t@sEmbr=/, it's always /por4@/

Elliott

In a message dated Thu, 6 Dec 2001 7:40:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, Nik Taylor
<fortytwo@...> writes:

> Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> > Erm? I didn't realise there was any other pronunciation (although when I
> > was younger, I used to pronounce it /nIkj@"rA:gju@/
>
> I've *only* ever heard /'nIk@"rAgw@/ or /nikA'*AgwA/ (* = tap), the
> second being an approximation of the original Spanish pronunciation.
>
> And on Puerto Rico, am I the only one here who uses and hears /pw/
> there?
>
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