English Pronunications (OT, sorry :)

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No: HPFGUIDX 4780

I seem to recall reading it in a Spider Robinson book (Callahan's 
Legacy, I think); he attributed it to Heinlein.



--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, John Walton <johnwalton at b...> wrote:
> Hi all. I remember that, at one point back on Yahoo, someone sent 
in an
> amusing thing about how English pronunciation is really weird. 
Like "He
> laughed at the tough plough in the trough" and things like that.
> 
> Can someone point me to either (a) the author or (b) the list? I'm 
looking
> for it for a Linguistics class.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --John
> 
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> 
> When I am an Evil Overlord...#5
> The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the
> Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons 
of
> Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to 
the object
> which is my one weakness.
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