cannot: OED pronunciation again

[Dennis R. Preston]

Neil,

Not bad, lacking IPA; he certainly is not a posh RP speaker, and his
stress is on the second element, but I'm not sure what that has to do
with my message.

dInIs



>on 17/1/05 5:02 pm, Dennis R. Preston at preston at MSU.EDU wrote:
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>>  larry,
>>
>>  If you shift the stress to the first syllable (as
>>  I have heard some posh RP types do), the
>>  pronunciation [kaen at t] works.
>>
>>  There are also British Isles [kaen@] dialect forms (less posh).
>>
>>  dInIs, who is known for hanging around posh types in general
>>
>Not being a linguist, I know not how to record Mr Mackenroe's Wimbledon
>outburts other than as:
>'You kuh-naht be serious!'
>
>- Neil Crawford


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