[Ads-l] Capsule ['k æpʃʲʊl]

[Mark Mandel]

Well, of course we have *sure* /ʃʊr/ and its compounds, but that syllable
is always stressed.
Mark

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 8:35 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > On Jun 29, 2020, at 6:16 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Australian English
> > https://youtu.be/abuptkDdbLI
> > About 2:20
> >
> > This may be very familiar information to those who are concerned with it,
> > but I don't know much about Australian accents academically.
> >
> > MAM
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> Haven’t heard it myself and it’s not listed among the OED’s recorded
> variants, but it does make a kind of sense, since we get palatalization of
> /sju/ before /r/—sure we do—and “capsule” isn’t structurally that different
> from, say, “capture”, so why not before /l/?  And -tule palatalizes as well
> as in “pustule” (memorably eggcornicized as “pus jewel”, as some will
> recall). Are there other words ending in -sule?  I don’t seem to have a
> backward dictionary on me.  Palatalization in “consul” seems less likely,
> but how about “consulate”?  I’ll ask my Australian colleague next chance I
> get.  Null hypothesis is that it’s a one-off spelling pronunciation.
>
> LH
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