silent letters (was broadcasters)

[Bob Haas]

Not for Popeye.  Has anyone out there ever encountered anyone who pronounces
"iron" with two syllables like the cartoon character?

> From: James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:17:24 -0700
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: silent letters (was broadcasters)
>
> The"o" in "iron" is silent??
>
> --- Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm at SLIP.NET> wrote:
>>> As in "SloAne", "lamB", "duCk", "WeDnesday",
>> "bellE", , "Gnash", "Honest",
>>> , , "Knock", "haLf", "Mnemonic", "damN", "irOn",
>> "Pseudo", , , , "busTle",
>>> "cheqUe", "Write", , , and ?
>>
>> A while ago I was trying to come up with a word with
>> a silent letter
>> for every letter of the alphabet.  Is there one for
>> q?  I don't
>> really remember all of them just now.
>>
>> Rima
>
>
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