Re: English syllable structure

In a message dated Fri, 7 Dec 2001 1:42:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, "H. S. Teoh"
<hsteoh@...> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:33:32PM -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> [snip]
> > other English speakers in accepting complex onsets.  My normal
> > way of saying the word 'potato', for example, is [pt_hei(r"ou].
> [snip]
>
> Yikes... that sounds more like a mangled version of Greek (prefix?)
> _pterw_ than "potato" to me. :-P Although, I *am* known for slang-ing
> "potato" as "'tato" or "'taters". Or sometimes, "spud", but that's
> something else altogether :-)
Sounds good for me. [pt_hei4ow] i guess.

Elliott


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