On 7/2/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Words like debt (among others) never had the "b" sound.
OED seems to think that it came from Latin "debitum".
Island didn't
used to have the "s" in it at all but was added as a convention to
associate it with the word "isla", the two of which were otherwise not
connected.
OED confirms.
How about people who enunciate the"t" in "often". Granted the root
word is "oft". The "of-ten" pronunciation bothers me frequently.
carl
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