"Silver Tsunami" (first "boomer" files for Social Security)

[Mark Mandel]

/ts-/ yes, /mn-/ no.

m a m (not mn a mn)

On 10/24/07, Stephen Montgomery <wytukaze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm assuming the string of gibberish I received from myself just now
> was thanks to a problem with UTF-8 on the list's end, so let's try again,
> from the top.
>
> First message:
> Just to timidly poke a dead horse, while I have little interest in which
> word is better, I pronounce the 't' in tsunami. Might be, mind you, down
> to
> my acquaintance with German's initial /ts/ (although I still can't
> properly
> master the /sts/ of 'Szene' et al).
>
> And, while I'm at it, does anyone but me pronounce the 'm' of 'mnemonic'?
>
>
>

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