schedule --pronunciation

[James Smith]

My wife, born and raised Utah, has always used "sh"
rather than "sk" to pronounce "schedule"; however,
"sk" is the typical pronunciation in Utah.


--- "Sonja L. Lanehart" <lanehart at ARCHES.UGA.EDU>
wrote:
> In discussing phonetics and morphology in my
> Introduction to English
> Language class yesterday, at least 2 U.S. born and
> raised students
> said their pronunciation of 'schedule' is with 'sh'
> and not 'sk'. I
> was a bit skeptical since we were playing a game and
> their phonemic
> transcriptions were important to winning the prize.
> Still, they stood
> by their claim and none of the other students
> objected to their
> claims. In fact, they seemed to actually have some
> level of support
> from their classmates--even the ones on competing
> teams.    --SL
>
>
> >Schedule with a 'sh', rather than a 'sk'--do
> Canadians use it?
> >Do any Americans use it besides the crowd with whom
> I used to affect it?
> >
> >FWIW, I seem to hear Britons saying 'skedule' much
> of the time...
> >
> >Lynne
> >
> >M Lynne Murphy
> >Lecturer in Linguistics
> >School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> >University of Sussex
> >Brighton BN1 9QH
> >UK
> >
> >phone +44-(0)1273-678844
> >fax   +44-(0)1273-671320
>
>
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