-SS -> -ST?

[Wilson Gray]

I understand that, Benjamin. I didn't mean to imply that I thought
that such pronunciations were peculiar to BE. I'm not laboring under
that "mispreapprehension," to revive a pronunciation considered
humorous, bsck in radio days. I apologize for not having made myself
clear.

-Wilson

On 11/30/06, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Just for the record, the incidents I describe are not within a BE
> context, and moreover, morphologically specific to this item. BB
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> On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > My mother says "once-t" and "twice-t," among other words of this type.
> > OTOH, she says "fis'' for "fist" and "feis" for "feist." In fact, this
> > sort of thing is not at all unusual in BE.
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> > -Wilson
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> > On 11/30/06, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> >> One more item I remembered last night is hearse -> hearst. My sister
> >> drove a hearse a few years back (as her regular car) and was
> >> surprised at the number of people who asked her about her "hearst".
> >> As I recall, it was only her telling me about all the wrong
> >> pronunciations that prevented me from doing the same.
> >>
> >> Benjamin Barrett
> >> a cyberbreath for language life
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam Clemens

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