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barrier'. Pronounced "mock", the Mach number is the ratio of the speed of a fluid, or of This would appear to be a case where pronunciation spelling doesn't do the job. I'm going to avoid ... British pronunciation of

It was apparently known as 'Mach 1' (pronounced in BrE as 'mack 1') in 1947. Pronounced "mock", the Mach number is the ratio of the speed of a fluid,or of This would appear to be a case where pronunciation spelling

I would need more information about the speech of the person in question to be able to say whether "whut" was being used here as eye dialect or simply as phonetic spelling. Very good point. Obviously, as a BrE/AusE speaker, my

} On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:24:12 +0100, Ross Howard } }> } }> >( . . . ) } }> >> So the change to /'INglIS/ and /'INgl@nd/ was not particularly }> >> unusual it's just that the spelling of and }> >>

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"Rather", as I've mentioned, is also a different phenomenon: the"ah" pronunciation is more archaic, and is retained in some areas andsome accents which never developed the "ah" in words like "half"

There are a few words which tend to have the ... the same) - half, halve, calf, can't, shan't, banana, rather. Also there are still a handful of AmE speakers that follow the southern England approach (mainly in Eastern New England). Yes,