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

[Dennis Preston]

Stephen,

1) If you can't muster German /sts/, please don't look at Polish.

2) No; to my knowledge you are the only native speaker of English (if
you are one) who pronounces the /m/ in mnemonic. Should we notify
Guiness?

3) You don't pronounce the /t/ at the onset of silver?

dInIs (long day)


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>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.
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>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).
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>And, while I'm at it, does anyone but me pronounce the 'm' of 'mnemonic'?
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>Second message:
>Apologies for the double post, but I forgot to mention something else. Did
>it occur to anyone else that the choice of "tsunami" in "silver tsunami"
>might have had something to do with the alliterative quality for (what I'm
>assuming is) the majority of speakers?
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>[So make that apologies for the triple post and spamming your inboxes with
>reams of nonsense.]
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
Morrill Hall 15-C
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48864 USA

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