Re[2]: [tied] Re: *kap-

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 40949
Date: 2005-10-01

At 3:41:47 AM on Saturday, October 1, 2005, P&G wrote:

>> the standard [fA.rid] <forehead> which was not _very_
>> frequent - but too frequent when compared to its length.

> Does Zipf's law take into account the reading
> pronunciation which restores /fohEd/?

/'fOr,hEd/, /'fO:,hEd/

Reading-derived, no doubt, but the former is the only one
that I heard growing up.

Brian