At 09:10 -0400 2002-08-21, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > > >There is also fo'c'sle, the abridged version of "forecastle". :-)
I wrote: > > There are no glottal stops there. Jim wrote: > I only wanted to add an English example of multiple apostrophes in a >word. No made no claim for how it was pronounced. True. But lo! you have inadvertently misspelled it! It isn't fo'c'sle -- it's fo'c's'le! (New Oxford, 2001). It's pronounced ['fouksel]. Wow. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
