Schedule (sk-/sh-?)

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:03 AM +0000 1/29/01, Michael Quinion wrote:
>  >  In his Pronouncing Dictionary of 1990, J.C. Wells says under
>>  "schedule": "The AmE pronunciation with -sk is starting to be
>>  heard in BrE." It would be interesting to see what the second
>>  edition has to say about this change in progress, as further
>>  polls were conducted to determine which pronunciations are the
>>  ones currently preferred among Britons.
>
>The new edition contains a graph showing a clear gradation
>according to age, with sh- being used by more than 90% of older
>speakers (age not specified), but sk- by 65% of those born since
>1973. Overall, 70% preferred sh-. If the slope of the graph is
>to be believed, the shift to sk- is accelerating.
>
Or the skift, as Dorothy Parker would apparently have said...