Mark O:
>I treat it as a silent letter, like the p in pterydactyl or the ch in
> >chthonic. Duh-neice-ter sounds like the sister of duh-nephew-ster.
Erh, I say "kuh-thonic" too. Yikes.
But it could be just me. For a long time, when I was a toddler reading
linguistic articles, I thought that "akin" was pronounced "achin'" until I
realised that it's related (or "akin" :) to "kin". Duh! Oh well.
No need to go puh-sychotic about 'ronunciation, I always say.
- gLeN
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