hard words on TV! Part deux

[Scot LaFaive]

Try as I might, I can't voice that final phoneme saying this word naturally.
Damn, now I have something in common with Bush. I call that shitty.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Re: hard words on TV! Part deux
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:02:19 +0000
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>I'd go with ~speesheez instead of ~speeshees (species).
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>Of interest here is that Pres. Bush pronounces plural words ending in the
>letter "s" as ~s, instead of ~z.  A lot of this is going on.
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>I call it tradnouncing or tradtalking (saying a phoneme in a most familiar
>way as it would be pronounced for most traditonal spelling).  I call
>traditional spelling, tradspel.
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>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
>See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
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> >Gretchen Carlson, - classical violinist, former Oxford undergraduate,
>Miss
> >America 1989 - is having a bad word-day.  Commenting on a film clip of
> >polar bear cubs frolicking in the zoo:
> >
> >GRETCHEN CARLSON: They're the only ones of their species - is it
> >"speeshees"?...
> >
> >BRIAN KILMEADE: "Speeshees."
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> >GRETCHEN CARLSON: The only ones of their speeshees born in North America.
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