schedule --pronunciation

[D. Ezra Johnson]

Nancy Elliott writes:
>
Captain Picard says 'skedule' in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." When I
first heard it, I assumed someone had told Patrick Stewart he ought to
pronounce it that way for his American audience.
>

Captain Picard is supposed to be French, right? So maybe he doesn't have to
conform to British norms.

The other possiblity is diffusion of the [sk] pronunciation over the next
three centuries...

DEJ
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