"Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)

David Wake dwake at STANFORDALUMNI.ORG
Wed Oct 6 01:16:24 UTC 2010


Yeah I know that.  Didn't you see the smiley :)

D

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Wake <dwake at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>> "ont"
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> In most dialects of AmE, "ont" = "ahnt."
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> -Wilson
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