Pronouncing drug names (w. note for Wilson)

[Mark Mandel]

Ron, don't waste your time trying to talk sense to Tom Zurinskas. He is a
perfect example of non-theological invincible ignorance. (And I'm being
polite this time.) I killfiled him long ago.

m a m

On Jan 31, 2008 1:50 PM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:

> Huh?=20
>
> The word "dessert" in English no more has a "double consonant" than does
> the=
> =20
> word "desert," right?
>
> Or if you are talking about spelling conventions, then why don't we
> write=20
> "reppeat," "rellate," etc., but we do write "innocent," "pollen," etc.?
>
> In a message dated 1/30/08 11:25:07 PM, truespel at HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > Regards syllabic stress and spelling -
> > There is a tendency for a stressed syllable to be indicated by a
> double=20
> > consonant in English; for example, desert/dessert.=A0 For stressed
> syllabl=
> es that=20
> > both begin and end with double consonants, like "accommodate", the most
> co=
> mmon=20
> > spelling mistake (75%) is to drop the second double (accomodate) rather
> th=
> an=20
> > the first (acommodate).=A0 Thus, truespel phonetics indicates stress (on
> o=
> ther=20
> > than the first syllable) with a preceding double consonant.
> ~ukkaamudaet.
> >=20
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