"athletic" and schwa insertion

[Scot LaFaive]

 I hadn't noticed. It was novel to me. Oh well, more wasted bits :P

Scot

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Surely, this feature is one that has been present in the speech of
> millions of Americans of all races, creeds, colors, sexual
> orientations, national origins, and political persuasions and,
> perhaps, in that of native speakers of other varieties of English for
> at least the past half-century.
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> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Scot LaFaive<slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I found some mention of this in the archives but thought someone might be
> > interested in knowing about another occurrence. After watching a few
> Packers
> > games co-anchored by Rich Gannon (ex-Raiders quarterback and Philadelphia
> > native), I've notice that his pronunciation of "athletic" always includes
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> > schwa inserted between theta and L. Not sure about "athlete."
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