Genitalia
Bill Smith
wh5mith at MINDSPRING.COM
Fri Sep 29 00:41:15 UTC 2000
In the posting below, I wrote a "see below," but omitted the "below. Here
it is:
Are [aiS] and [IS] English sounds? Aside from proper nouns (e.g.
"Fleischmann"), foreign words used only in the context of their native
territories (e.g. "Reich"), and dialects in which [I] is raised to [i], I
can't think of any. Is that due to a failure of my memory retrieval, or do
such words not exist?
Bill
At 11:16 PM 9/27/00 -0400, I wrote:
> I seem to owe an apology to those who did not realize that my
>"prurience" comment was tongue-in-cheek. Still, you must admit that Jesse
>Sheidlower got more attention by writing _The F-Word_ (hardly a book to be
>read for its pornographic content) than he would have if he had chosen to
>write about, say, "science" (although that too has some interesting
>etymological relatives).
> This is indeed linguistic research, seeking answers of the type that
>I received for "possible." That is why I ask for the pronunciation of
>"nishi." If it is [niSI], a likely source is French "niche." If it is
>[nISI], "knish" is the likely candidate (but see below).
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