Pronunciation

catphile5 catphile5 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 13 06:44:56 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 55273

--- "alician002  I'm guessing it was either 'kah-nuts' or 'kah-noots'.
> > 
> > Just as a point of interest, can anyone think of a word in the English
> > language that begins with 'kn' where the 'K' is not silent??? I
> > couldn't find any, so in view of that, I can't imagine why I thought
> > the 'K' should be pronounced. Ain't life strange?


Me:
FWIW the CD audio books pronounce it kah-nutts.

The more I see kn words, the more tempted I am to pronounce the k, but
I think it's just because it's amusing to do so.

"catphile5"





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