Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:06:32 -0500

From: "David A. Johns" djohns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET

Subject: Re: Wednesday with a [d]



At 04:20 PM 11/12/97 -0700, you wrote:



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].



Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. The friend who

pronounces the first [d] grew up in West Virginia, but her father is

from Ulster and her mother from Scotland.



David Johns