[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In English, it's ['junIkowd]. Think "unicycle" or
"unilateral" or "universal". And the "code" part
is the root word "code".
Quod dixit, dixit.
As for "unique", well, why doesn't "one" rhyme with
"stone", "bone", and "alone"?
Because some people thought it was clever to adopt a nonce pronunciation
of "one" /Own/, namely /wVn/, and it stuck. A similar process has
given us the expression "That's the ticket", originally "That's etiquette"
with a jocular mispronunciation of "etiquette" as /@'tIk@t/ instead
of the normal /'EtIkEt/.
I wonder what our fine lady friend (she knows exactly
who she is) has to say about this?
Her Radiant Effulgency is in general tolerant of side conversations,
unless they lead to a high rate of subscribers fleeing the list.
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Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.-- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
