Heard on NOVA:

[Jonathan Lighter]

Like the Inuit do.

JL

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jocelyn Limpert
> > <jocelyn.limpert at gmail.com> quoted:
> >> The pronunciation that I was specifically taught to use ca. 1945 - as
> >> opposed to the "spelling-pronunciation," [arktIk] - still lives.
> >
> > Whoa! Is *my* face red! That poorly-constructed sentence should read:
> >
> > "_That_ pronunciation, _[ar.tIk]_, that I was specifically taught to
> > use ca. 1945 - as opposed to the 'spelling-pronunciation,'
> > [arktIk]..."
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> > And by _.t_, I mean that the /t/ was given an slight,
> > syllable-initial-style (slight) aspiration.
> >
> Yup, you just need to arcticulate clearly.  ;-)
>
> LH
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