Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:

> The extreme example of this is the jargon of
> lawyers, judges, and other people around the courts
> here in New York City, who consistently say
> [difEnd&nt] and [dZurOr] rather than the normal
> [difEnd@nt] and [dZur@(r)].
Quite a few of our surgeons say ['sO~nnImitr], a sort
of pseudo-french for centimetre. One says
['debridmE~].
Not to mention [dAjleSn En 'kjurEtAZ] (I think) -
first word is pure English, the third is another
pseudo-french jobby. Sonnimetre really struck me as
odd first time I heard it (in real life: Bill Cosby
used it in an old standup bit).

> John Cowan
Padraic.


=====
parla, mays ben parla; et pharleir becko il maboun.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes
http://finance.yahoo.com