Re: French liaisons (was something else)

Tristan McLeay wrote:

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>>>>LOL and to an American "two dollars fifty"
>>>>sounds like someone putting
>>>>on airs and/or trying to sound like a Brit!
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>>>That surprises me no end (why, for instance, a
>>>Brit?).
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>>Because they say things "tha??l be two squid
>>fifty, guv" and similar. I guess if we REALLY
>>want to sound rightpondian, we need to say "two
>>dollars and fifty cee".
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>No? 'tha??u be two squid fi??y, guv'?
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God, no.  Glo??al stops only between vowels, and syllable-final.  And
why would we turn our 'f' into a glottal stop?  But 'two quid fifty' is
ungrammatical. If you have  to use that construction,  it's
'pound'(singular, unless you want to sound hypercorrect).  Also, use
'mate', not guv'

[D&?M\ bi tu p&:n fIfti mEi?]