Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0FEfc009149; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:41:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:41:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <78.208bb7a1.297598d4@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:6908] Re: standard English and pride in one's dialect X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10021 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_78.208bb7a1.297598d4_boundary" Status: O Content-Length: 2573 Lines: 55 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kind of unrelated, but, I, a native spanish speaker, eat Salllllmon. My wife, eats saaaamon. I've been wondering for a long time where is the "r" sound in "colonel", and what happens to the "l"? Finally, it has taken me approx. 14 years to hear the differnece in prononciation between 'these' and 'this' or between 'were' and 'where'. I sometimes, accidentally write one instead of the other as in : Were are the books? or, This are the items that we need to buy. Andres In a message dated 1/15/2002 6:50:20 AM Mountain Standard Time, karamera@boun.edu.tr writes: > Hey guys, I don't know if I'm a misfit or what, but I've always used the > pronunciation "axs" for ask. > > I don't why the other words are pronounced the way they are pronounced by > the groups you mentioned, but in Chaucer's time the word "ask" used to be > "axe". :) What a coincidence, isn't it? :) > >
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