Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7251-7264 + resignation

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:44:04 -0700 

Machiavelli wrote:


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


I still don't get it.






















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