how is the prefix "ex" really spoken (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wed Apr 28 14:40:17 UTC 2010

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Tom Zurinskas
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> Subject: how is the prefix "ex" really spoken
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> Analysis of words starting with "ex"
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> The spoken words in thefreedictionary.com for USA and UK are compared
> to the phonetic notation on that site.
> The Collins Cobuild database of the 5k most popular words is used to
> find word frequency containing "ex" as a prefix.
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> ~aks was the pronunciation for both USA and UK for one word, "excess"
> ~akses
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How was "access" pronounced?  The same as "excess"?
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