Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 16:20:47 -0700

From: bruce dwight bolinging bboling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNM.EDU

Subject: Re: Wednesday with a [d]



On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, David A. Johns wrote:



Does anyone know if the "d" in "Wednesday" is routinely pronounced

anywhere in the English speaking world?



Thanks,



--

David Johns

Waycross College

Waycross, GA 31501



The ordinary pronunciation of Wednesday in Ireland (both in the

Republic and in Ulster) retains the [d] as an unreleased consonant,

followed by a vocalic [n]: Ulster [wEdnzde], Republic [wEdnzdi].



Bruce D. Boling

University of New Mexico

bboling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unm.edu