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Re: English syllable structure

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Sunday, December 9, 2001, 0:30
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, And Rosta wrote:

> Kou: > > /nIk@rA:gju@/ sounds distinctly British (BBC) to my ears. Too, the car > > "Jaguar" pronounced à la britannique sounds like /dZ&gju@/. > > In English English _Nicaragua_ and _jaguar_ rhyme in /&gju:@/. > /nIk@'r&gw@/ or (god help us!) /nIk@'rA:gw@/ would sound insufferably > pretentious. It seems to be symptomatic of the different ways that > English and American English do Foreign. E.g. Eng E renders _pasta_ > and _costa_ as /p&st@/ and /kQst@/, as tho they were native E words, > whereas Am E does them as /pAst@/ and /kowst@/, i.e. with Am E
Really? I thought it was the other way around with `pasta'... I'd assumed that the reason I said /pA:st@/ was because of the same reason I say /pA:st@/ for `pastor'... Tristan anstouh@yahoo.com.au War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. - BSD Games' Fortune

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