question on pronunciation in Jespersen
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
hstahlke at BSU.EDU
Wed Nov 5 18:24:10 UTC 2003
In a section on the suffices -Vnce and -Vncy, Jespersen writes, "A good deal of vacillation between -nce and -ncy may partly be attributed to the fact that the plurals -nces and -ncies are identical in sound, e. g. inadvertences = inadvertencies, impertinences = impertinencies." I have never noticed. To me the pronunciations are distinct. Would this be a first-half of the 20th c. British pronunciation?
Herb
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