Portuguese language changes

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:38 AM -0700 10/8/09, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 01:42:58 Zulu + 0000 Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
>wrote:
>
><quote>
>diaeresis has two pronunciations
>=20
>in UK    die-AIR-ih-sis  ~die"airisis
>in USA   die-uh-REE-sis  ~die'urreesis
>
>as per thefreedictionary.com
></quote>
>
>I trust the editors of thefreedictionary were just having a little
>fun, as the supposed USA pronunciation is actually that for the word
>"diuresis".
>
I've only ever heard the former pronunciation and that's the only one
listed in AHD4, but I suppose the latter could be an actual spelling
pronunciation, and I imagine the context would usually disambiguate.
And as we know, some people pronounce it ['Umlaut].

LH

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