[Ads-l] _beyond_

[Neal Whitman]

I have noticed, but don't remember where.



> On May 29, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Have you ever noticed that some speakers pronounce this word as "be yond,"
> in accord with the spelling, whereas other speakers pronounce it as "be
> ʔond," with a glottal stop, instead.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this distinction is not conditioned by anything. Some
> people use the one and other people use the other, without regard to race,
> creed, color, previous condition of servitude, dialect, place of residence,
> or anything else.
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
> 
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