Swiss /shard/

[Laurence Horn]

On May 3, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> Dani Spies talks about cooking Swiss /shard/.

And she introduces it as "shard" without the Swiss, so no assimilation involved.  It does sound more dangerous than ordinary (Swiss) chard.   I suppose this is another instance of hyperforeignism or hypergallicism--after all if we were in France, or Geneva, "chard" would be pronounced like "shard", mutatis mutandis.

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