Re: English syllable structure

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Elliott Lash wrote:

> In a message dated Sun, 9 Dec 2001 2:03:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, Tristan
> Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> writes:
>
> > And it occurs to me that Americans are the people who say /t@meito/ and
> > /t{ko/ rather than /t@mA:t8u/ and /tA:k8u/ (those latter two are Aussie
> > pronunciations, and we're a mixed bag of American and British, so I
> > could be completly wrong there...).
>
> I say /t@meitow/ and /tAkow/ ..and again I'm from New York. Not
> everyone says the same thing in America..you can't just make
> generalizations like 'it occurs to me that Americans' :)
I never said all of them did. What the sentence meant to me was that of
the people who say /t@meito/ and /t{ko/ (and the like) are all going to be
American, in my limited experience. (That last comment is superfluous, of
course, as we all know that every statement anyone makes includes that one
whether it's been specified or not.)

Tristan

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