i can see a team of archaeologists giving eachother high-five's in the year 3126 when this thread is found. "I told you Nigel, they DID use a silent L sound in caulk back when they spoke English! You owe me 500 pesos!"
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yes, but the name will be pronounced nee he. they've combined spanish pronunciation with our affinity for silent L's, of course.
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* * Now that's an esoteric vice. |
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Americans with the cot-caught vowel merger do sound pretty funny sometimes to those of us who distinguish these vowels. Walk, wok. * When you walk a dog, you put it on a lead and walk around with it for a while. * When you wok a dog, you cut it into small strips and fry it in hot oil with vegetables. Stir-fried Fido, anyone? |
And then there are those half-brights who pronounce the T in often.
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Guess I'm only a half-bright then, I certainly pronounce it.
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Me too. Sometimes. Mostly in fact. Indeed, most people I know do. Must be a dialect thing.
I wish I was like UG. It must be great to be able to so accurately judge people's intelligence levels and educational achievements based purely on their dialect/pronunciation, or grammatical errors. |
Yes, why wouldn't you pronounce the t in often? Do you not pronounce the first r in February, and the h in what, where and when?
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I uh- pronounce the t in often.
Well better half-bright than not bright at all! :) |
England is a country of half-brights.
Near everyone I know pronounces the t in often, albeit in a swallowed kind of way. |
I think you only pronounce it offen if you are really posh :P
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The use of 'anxious' when the word should be 'eager' bugs the snot out of me. Yes, I know that some dictionaries now have that as one possible meaning. Writing guides still strongly recommend using them as originally defined.
I understand about the whole 'living language' argument. But it seems to me that, in cases like these, the language is the worse for it. Words that once had a precise and useful meaning are now more bland and less useful. |
Hey, the living language embiggens us all.
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Drives me batty. |
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