Clerk / clark etc

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:57 pm -0500 Damien Hall
<halldj at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

>  It's
> especially the phonetics that make the American usage marked.


Hm.  It's only marked in the context where it's not the norm (i.e.,
UK)--n'est-ce pas?

Lynne


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