On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Pavitra <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/29/2012 05:36 PM, omd wrote: >> 7251 1 Tanner L. Swett Reduction > AGAINST. I don't get it.
A couple of sound changes are applied to make "Canberra" easier to pronounce. First, assimilation, causing the awkward "nb" to turn into the more natural "mb"; then elision, causing the unstressed second syllable "er" to be dropped. The result is "Cambra". —Mockaflee
