Pronunciation of "malware"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/6/2013 09:50 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>So we have "malware" with the original [ae]
>(ash) as in "malpractice", "mall-wear"
>essentially with [O], and
hypergallic [a] (or
>really script-a) as in (my pronunciation of)
>moll-wear, as befits a gangster's
>girlfriend.  Useful, if unintended, distinctions.

Meaning "minimal pairs (triplets)"?

Joel


>LH
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>On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:46 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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> >>
> >> <<<malware . . . mall>>>  Preponderance of lexemes with <mal-> pronounced
> >> with [ash]; <<a local TV newscaster (Atlanta)>> rendered <mal-> with [ah],
> >> induced by elegantese (Bollinger) = hypergallicism (Brewer).
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