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Cloud 04-23-2008 07:42 PM
run for the dictionary, everyone!

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by monster (Post 447708)
Do you pronounce the d in Wednesday too?
there are 2 "d" sounds in Wednesday.

wendz-day

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2008 07:44 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by case (Post 447690)
...

HLJ, I think 1 "all ya'll" counts for 2 "y'all"s.
Quote:
Vanessa: What are ya'll lookin' at? Fuck all ya'll.

monster 04-23-2008 07:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 447710)
there are 2 "d" sounds in Wednesday.

wendz-day
not according to the OED :)


anyway, waht to you mean "run" -a tru wordophile alwats has the two-volume Shorter Oxford within arms-reach

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:46 PM
discussion re: "often" --

http://www.englishforums.com/English...vbpwk/post.htm

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/often.html

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2008 07:47 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 447710)
there are 2 "d" sounds in Wednesday.

wendz-day
I've always said Wed-ns-day

monster 04-23-2008 07:49 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 447710)

wendz-day
but the first d comes before the n

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by monster (Post 447712)
not according to the OED :)


anyway, waht to you mean "run" -a tru wordophile alwats has the two-volume Shorter Oxford within arms-reach
how else would you pronounce it?

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by monster (Post 447715)
but the first d comes before the n
in spelling, but not in pronunciation.

eta: okay my dictionary does not list the first d in pronunciation. says: wenz-da.

I think when I pronounce it, there is a soft d sound in there before, or as part of the z sound.

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:56 PM
okay, this is the note on pronunciation of often from my Random House unabridged:

Quote:
Often was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the t came to predominate in the speech of the educated, in both North America and Great Britain, and the earlier pronunciation fell into disfavor. Common use of a spelling pronunciation has since restored the (t) for many speakers, and today [both] exist side by side. Although it is still sometimes criticized, often with a (t) is now so widely heard from educated speakers that it has become fully standard once again.

monster 04-23-2008 07:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 447717)
in spelling, but not in pronunciation.

bollocks. that's just incorrect -like saying "nucular"

Cloud 04-23-2008 07:59 PM
well, I don't say, "wed-nes-day" or anything. see my eta above.

lumberjim 04-23-2008 08:01 PM
cloud is mildly irritating me today. mildly being the key word.

monster 04-23-2008 08:01 PM
yup. wenzday. :)

Shall we start on Connecticut? :lol:

monster 04-23-2008 08:02 PM
Oh, we're going back on topic are we?

In that case mmy hair is mildy irritating me. And my eczema.


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