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In le message del Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:43:06 GMT, Cgao Coma ha scripte: Hi I recently jumped into this ancient english term, ANTANI, I don't know the meaning, neither the origin. It should concern the tuscan city of Florence (X-posted), but not

"Physiological" was not a joke, instead it was a reference ... as the same while most others hear them as distinct. Yup. Similarly, some people are better able to recognise subtleties in colour differences than others. Men are

Some of it could be physiological though. I once knew ... This was an educated person who read quite a lot. Only one? Many of us have encountered the pen/pin merger. When I was in school in California, and particularly my ... It's not a

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

I believe no one here has disputed that the US has regional accents. By the way, I lived quite a ... Not just immigrants from elsewhere, either. But yes, there certainly are people in eastern Massachusetts who do have non-rhotic accents. Ah, now

Does this relate to some stainless steel alloy? I don't get the reference but am willing to learn. Hey, that would have been extremely witty, considering your name! No, I took "mUs1Ka" to be using iron to indicate irony, and I

OED gives /ma'kIzm@U/ as the primary British pronunciation, as does ... for "macho") has more to do with Italian than Greek... Nice hypothesis, but I don't think it holds up. If it really were a pattern based on confusion with

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Donald Duck quack-like. Midwest, in my hearing is ea . "Yeah" is ea, but only if it is prolonged: "Oh, yeah?" How do you write your cat, half, chat, that vowel, RF? I mean inyour phonetic description? You'd have to check