Another "$100 Misunderstanding" (1)

[Wilson Gray]

On Aug 13, 2004, at 9:33 PM, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:

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>> If this more or less matches your pronunciation of the noun, then you
>> are only the second person that I *personally* know of to use it.
>> Nevertheless, I ask that you please accept my apologies for having
>> called it "odd." I should not have placed a value-judgment upon it.
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> No - I was talking only about the stress pattern - and I thought you
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> Sorry.
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> Bethany
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Not at all. My fault for not being clearer.  Okay, then. IN veh lup
*is* odd.;-)

-Wilson