Re: USAGE: name pronunciation
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 28, 2004, 17:33 |
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:17:09PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:32:28PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > [*] But the Enroughtys [da:biz] and the Taliaferros [tAl@v3z] will
> > *never* submit to mere spelling pronunciations!
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> The name |Enroughty| is pronounced [da:biz]?!? That makes no sense
> whatsoever! I can understand how the others could happen via reduction,
> but . . .
Very maggelitinous, indeed. Almost on the order of writing "ghoti" for
[fIS]. :-)
T
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