-SS -> -ST?

[Charles Doyle]

Except when my students, reading Flannery O'Connor, pronounce it "on-set" or "onket" or (at best) "one-set"!

--Charlie
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>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:37:49 -0500
>From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
>Subject: Re: -SS -> -ST?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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>Right:  oncet
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>(Wrong  wunst)
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>Bethany

>
>On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Charles Doyle wrote:
>
>>Also the unspellable "once + /-t/," prevalent in some Southern dialects (and perhaps ones from elsewhere).

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