Actually there's historic logic in the pronunciation. Remember English
pronunciation was being codified when the entire ruling class was
clobbered by French speakers. No one much cared about the proper
pronunciation of English for a couple hundred years after that, since
the Court Language was French.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 10/4/2006 9:51:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>You know, getting the finer points right with slang terms is the
>toughest challenge with English. It's even worse than seeing the logic
>in the pronounciation...:-)
>
>Jostein
>=======
>That's because there isn't any. Logic, that is.
>
>Marnie aka Doe ;-)
>
>
>
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