On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> At 5:34 AM on Thursday, January 29, 2004, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> > At 9:22:23 PM on Tuesday, January 27, 2004, Richard
> > Wordingham wrote:
> >
> > > English can accept final /St/ (but it gets interpreted as
> > > containing a past participle ending), initial /St/ sounds
> > > foreign and will be naturalised as /st/ (compare
> > > <Schweppes> /sweps/).
> >
> > Is that the usual British pronunciation?  I can't recall
> > having heard anything but /Sweps/ over here.
>
> My experience is that my pronouncing it /Sweps/ strikes people as
> pedantic.  What do others know about it?

I (Australia) used to say and hear /sweps/ ages ago, but ads have changed
that to /Sweps/.

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Tristan