On 28 Jan 2005 20:09:37 -0800, R H Draney Bob Cunningham filted: When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us ... the vowels in "peck", "pick", "pock", and "rut" were short. That's

The schwa is by definition syllabic, though - to tell whether it's present in Bush's "prioritize" just count the syllables that you hear. But is the schwa a purely objective thing? I don't know from Bush's dialect, but

Afrikaans only became an official language in the 1920s, and trek entered English long before that. Of course, but it didn't come from the Dutch spoken by academicians in the Netherlands; it came from the Dutch spoken by farmers in South

AUE Apocrypha Update... We've long sought a solid attribution of "ghoti = fish" to George Bernard Shaw: . Various cites have turned up from 1938 onwards, though nothing ties "ghoti" to Shaw until 1961 (more than a decade

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And how do you pronounce the "a" in "laf"? I pronounce it the same as the "al" in "half". Don't you? Hey, that's an interesting insight. Indeed, "laugh" and "half" rhyme in all