On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:31 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
There are no English pronunciation rules that I know of that treat the reversal of the letter sounds as correct in any case.
Reversal of sounds? That's not so uncommon. In phonology there's even a name for it (metathesis).
Presumably you will reject aks and asteriks as "incorrect", but almost everyone says "uncomfterble".
There are also metatheses in which a vowel sound and consonant sound are swapped, such as "i-urn" (and its relative "envi-urnment".
mdl (who actually says "eye-run", much to the amusement of his wife) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
