hard words on TV! Part deux

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:24 PM -0500 5/10/07, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>Try as I might, I can't voice that final phoneme saying this word naturally.

That claim sounds a bit specious to me, but whaddoiknow.

LH

>Damn, now I have something in common with Bush. I call that shitty.
>
>Scot LaFaive
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>>From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
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>>Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:02:19 +0000
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>>I'd go with ~speesheez instead of ~speeshees (species).
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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."
>>>
>>>GRETCHEN CARLSON: The only ones of their speeshees born in North America.
>>>
>>>JL
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