David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

Any genre. Post it here by sundown tomorrow. Not really sure why I'm doing this. But the article did set this sequence in my mind and I had to write it out. Here it goes. Oh, and I do hope the formatting goes off well. It looks good on my

friends, I presume "passkey" is usually just pronounced "pass key". ... how Isay "ASCII", so I wouldn't say that they rhyme. "Pass key" would be pronounced with equal stress on each word,

You are correct, sir. BTW, in Goodfellas Joe ... one known to New York speakers. Ross Howard take note. Ross Howard is too busy flicking furrowed-browed through his *Goodfellas* screenplay to try and find where the hell Secaucus was even mentioned

Sorry, Richard, I just don't get it. Not always the teacher's fault. Color to a blind man, or some such. One more good example of why usenet is the wrong venue for discussing phonetics. The British pronunciation is different in ...

"Have" has the lax vowel of "can" (be able), while "halve" has the tense vowel of "can" (= BrE tin). Sorry, Richard, I just don't get it. Not always the teacher's fault. Color to a blind man, or some