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Fri, 11 Dec 2009, "Powell, Doug" <[email protected]> writes:
>In an attempt to obtain a pronunciation from a non-emotional resource,
>I typed ?RoHS, RoHS, RoHS, RoHS? into a document and had my
>text-to-speech program (TTS) interpret. It pronounced the word ?Rose?
>with what I would call a breathy sound just before the ?s?. Apparently
>this was the machine?s attempt to pronounce the ?H? in the acronym.
Which it seems to have done pretty well, considering that this 'hs'
phoneme doesn't exist in any sort of English as far as I know. ('hs'
split between syllables, like 'bathsoap' doesn't count.)
But a voiced final 's' is surely not correct, without a terminal 'e'.
I say 'R-O-H-S', but I don't expect others to follow.
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