"Foodstore" (was Re: Eggcorn?)

[Laurence Horn]

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>>  > > pronounced groshery
>>  > Like, there exists another pronunciation? ;-)
>>  Yea, gross-ry
>
>To whoever reported "groshery": Is it tri- or di-syllabic? I could expect a
>disyllabic "GROSS-ry" to become "GROSH-ry":
>         s --> sh /  __ r  (opt)
>         /s/ can become /sh/ before /r/
>
>It's automatic at the beginning of a syllable in English, which is why we
>have words beginning in "shr" but none beginning in "sr".
>
Except for those speakers who don't--the ones who say "srimp" and such.

Larry