-SS -> -ST?

[Benjamin Barrett]

Just for the record, the incidents I describe are not within a BE
context, and moreover, morphologically specific to this item. BB

On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> My mother says "once-t" and "twice-t," among other words of this type.
> OTOH, she says "fis'' for "fist" and "feis" for "feist." In fact, this
> sort of thing is not at all unusual in BE.
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> -Wilson
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> On 11/30/06, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> One more item I remembered last night is hearse -> hearst. My sister
>> drove a hearse a few years back (as her regular car) and was
>> surprised at the number of people who asked her about her "hearst".
>> As I recall, it was only her telling me about all the wrong
>> pronunciations that prevented me from doing the same.
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>> Benjamin Barrett
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