Henrik Theiling wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@...> writes:
> > Funny phonetic (i.e. spoken) alphabet for English... but silent!
> >
> >
> > http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/museum/silent.html
>
> :-)
>
> I understand that my pronunciation of many of these words seems to bo
> a little too literal... Could some English native speaker give a CXS
> list? :-) (My problems were: 'halfpenny', 'Milngavie', 'pepys',
> 'Colquhoun', 'indictment').

What's CXS?

hay-penny, ?, peeps (i.e. Samuel Pepys, renowned 17th-century diarist),
? but I'd guess = Calhoun, in-dite-ment
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...