Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 23:43:03 -0400

From: Benjamin Barrett Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM

Subject: Re: waft and SAE



Don't know if this is of any use or no, but...a postscript to my previous

message...



Shortly after dispatching my previous message, I received a call from my

mother and I asked her how she would pronounce w-a-f-t. She gave the wahft

pronounciation, so mine likely comes from reading and using analogy to words

like raft.



I happened to use the word "immersion, and she says "immersion" with a /zh/

while I use /sh/, so there may be a generation gap. (I have often wondered

whether Seattle is still going through a sorting out of pronunciations as it

has a large non-native pronounciation.)



Benjamin Barrett

gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com

gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gnn.com