Silent but deadly English

Being from non-rhotic Boston, where I would pahk the cahh in havahd yahd,
and being a descendant of a non-rhotic brooklyner from thoity thoid shtreet,
I guess I have learned to overcome and put R's in wherever possible, and now
I must be overcompensating.


I will now try to reverse my R behavior, which for me is not hard, as most
of you know I am good at doing things arse backwards.

;-)

Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Peter T. Daniels
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:10 AM
> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Silent English
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> Michael Everson wrote:
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> > At 01:20 -0800 2006-01-25, Tex Texin wrote:
> > >Thanks Mark, it's cool.
> > >But where is he from that the F in HalfPenny and the R in
> Forecastle
> > >are not pronounced?
> >
> > They are pronounced like "haypenny" (often written (ha'penny>) and
> > "foke-sel" (also written <fo'c'sle>).
>
> Even in rhotic America.
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> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...
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