Re: [tied] Re: PIE Word Formation (2)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 44083
Date: 2006-04-01

At 11:20:25 AM on Saturday, April 1, 2006, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

[...]

> Note that any accent in which (unlike RP but like most
> varieties of US English) <library> has a full second
> vowel, "liberry" can't be due to syncopation plus
> epenthesis and must be a genuine example of dissimilatory
> loss. Note also the common dropping of the firt /r/ in
> words like <surprise> ("supprise") in rhotic accents.

So common, in fact, that many of my students normally spell
the word <suprise>.

[...]

Brian