On 7/2/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl wrote:
>
> How about people who enunciate the"t" in "often". Granted the root
> word is "oft". The "of-ten" pronunciation bothers me frequently.
>
So you say...what? "Of-fen"?
"Do you come here offen"?
That's...odd.
Not where I come from linguistically. OED says the pronunciation
"of-ten" is frequent in the South of England. I find it frequent
among people who were taught to sound out words from their spelling.
Even my daughter, who, with a Ph.D. in linguistics ought to know
better.
W.S. Gilbert had a great deal of fun punning between "orphan" and
"often'. Frequently.
carl
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