CONtract/conTRACT

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Thursday, November 1, 2001 9:18 am -0600 "Donald M. Lance"
<LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:

> Is the stress still on CREAM in "ice cream cone" in British English?  And
> are you thinking of RP, or of other lects in Jolly Ol'?

It's general southern England, as far as I can tell.  This was an item that
a Brit pointed out to me as being different (to/from theirs) in my dialect.

I don't know that I've heard "ice cream cone" in British English.  There's
another lexical item for this: cornet.

Lynne


M Lynne Murphy
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