Mispronunciation?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:49 PM -0500 12/12/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 12/12/06 8:26:24 AM, mcovarru at PURDUE.EDU writes:
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>>  Natalie Morales on NBC's Today reported on a recent article in the "Annals
>>  of
>>  Neurology."  [ae]>[ej] in "annals" (ae=ash)
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>I have always pronounced this to rhyme with "channels"--perhaps under the
>influence with ANNUAL. And that is what "The New Oxford American Dictionary"
>seems to prescribe. How is this a mispronunciation?
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Looks to me like Michael C. is describing the pronunciation of
_annals_ as "anals" [ejn at ls].

LH

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