Re: Dune Conlang
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, November 13, 1999, 0:26 |
Matt Pearson wrote:
> In my head I always pronounced it /'bEnE gE'sErIt/,
> disregarding the Latin stress rule...
Hmm, I always pronounced it /'bEnej 'dZEsr=It/, an interesting example
of /E/ pre-nasally, normally unknown in my dialect (except, at least
idiolectally, "twenty" for some inexplicable reason)
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