schedule --pronunciation

[Barbara Need]

>--On Monday, January 29, 2001 7:21 pm -0600 Mike Salovesh
><t20mxs1 at CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU> wrote:
>> Illustration:
>> This thread has reached respectable length, yet nobody has mentioned
>> that Chicago has been an outpost of initial "sh" in "schedule" for about
>> half a century.  This is largely the result of Eric P. Hamp's valiant
>> tenacity in siding with sh. Hamp's dedication to SH while all the world
>> around him uses S merits recognition and congratulation almost as much
>> as his better-known contributions to linguistics.
>
>I assume that by 'Chicago' you mean 'the University of Chicago' (or maybe
>'the Linguistics Department of the University of Chicago).  Hamp may be
>influential, but I doubt he's _that_ influential!
>
>Lynne
>

And some of us at the UofC even say SKedule!

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics

(And I seem to recall at least one SHedule out of Picard's mouth, but I
couldn't tell you the episode.)