Pronunciation of 'Terrorism'.

[Dennis R. Preston]

Geroge,

Do you really mean this? I think you must mean they can't hear the
difference between "terrorism/tourism" and "terrorist/tourist." If so
(as I suspect) then they also can't tell the difference between your
"ferry-furry" and your "hairy/hurry" - and we all now know within a
few miles where you are from (apologies to Walt Wolfram).

dInIs



My wife and children all insist that they cannot hear the difference
between my pronunciation of "terrorism/terrorist" and "tourism/tourist".

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

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Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
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