~chooldrin
Tom Zurinskas
truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 18 17:09:56 UTC 2006
>From: FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US>
>
>How about 'twunty' =20
>Fritz
Right. And with the "t" dropped as well. ~twunee. Dictionaries don't go
into the fact that we eat final consonants, like "t" and "d" for glottal
stops. I try to tradspeek it ~twentee.
Tom Z
>
> >>> truespel at HOTMAIL.COM 10/17/2006 7:00 PM >>>
>I've noticed a change in pronunciaiton of "children". I would assume
>it to
>be ~childrin (~ denotes truespel notation). But I'm hearing
>everywhere
>~chooldrin (where ~ool is as in ~wool).
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