Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote: Stevertigo wrote:
Toby is once again, dead wrong. The proper incorrect spelling for "pretty" is "purdy" -- with a "D"... I'm compiling my sources now...
This spelling indicates use of a voiced alveoloar flap (IPA [r-with-no-line-above-the-curve]) instead of an unvoiced alveolar stop (IPA [t]). Since mav well may use this flap himself (saying "priddy"), perhaps he left it out of his mispronunciation spelling, lest he be accused of hypocrisy.
Say ... /you/ don't use that flap, do you SV? (Test: Do you pronounce "latter" and "ladder" the same?) You're not being hypocritical here, are you? ^_^
Similarly, anybody that makes fun of G.W. Bush by spelling his pronunciation of "nuclear" as "noocular", yet themself pronounces the word as "nooclear", is being hypocritical (that's why I wrote "nucular"). "nookyuhlar" is primarily unjustified exaggeration. And don't get me started on "wuz"!
(Brits, of course, have more freedom to make fun of Americans using some of these spellings.)
-- Toby
LOL. Thanks to both of you anyway :-)
We should have sounds in wiktionary... to be NPOV, each word would have to respect each pronunciation :-)
And...I pronounce nuclear, newclear :-(((
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