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[Victor Steinbok]

Shouldn't the [s] be silent, then? Like in "island"?

     VS-)

On 11/2/2010 6:21 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The trendy pronunciation, esp. on NPR.
>>
>> Shows you're not a bigot.
> Personally, I'm giving serious thought to going with eye-SLAM,
> following the pattern of eye-RAN and eye-RACK, pioneered by Stevie
> Wonder in his '73 cut, Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thang, on Innervisions,
> IIRC. ;-)
>
> --
> -Wilson

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