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Robert Bannister  
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 More options Oct 25 2012, 11:41 pm
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From: Robert Bannister <rob...@clubtelco.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:41:40 +0800
Local: Thurs, Oct 25 2012 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: Certain Persons Who Pronounce Certain Words Strangely
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On 25/10/12 11:07 PM, Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:

> Robert Bannister <rob...@clubtelco.com> writes:

>> On 24/10/12 10:46 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:

>>> I've heard two people pronounce the "t" in "pestle", though I don't
>>> think they would in "nestle", "castle", etc.  One insisted that
>>> dropping the "t" was wrong.  She also insisted that the "w" in
>>> "sword" (another one we missed) should be pronounced.

>> I don't think I've heard "pestle" pronounced without the t (yet).

>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9f2rnjB84

Good grief. I don't know how many times I've seen that, and yet I had
never noticed. We so often hear what we expect to hear. You can see why
I wrote "(yet)".

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Robert Bannister


 
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