Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:17:11 -0500

From: Robert Swets bobbo[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BCFREENET.SEFLIN.LIB.FL.US

Subject: Re: folk/folklore



On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Rima & Kim McKinzey wrote:



Can we as a literate society productively

consider "spelling pronunciation" as a legitimate dialect of English?



Seems to me that English, with all its borrowings - spelling and all -

could get truly ridiculous if all "spelling pronunciations" became accepted

as a legitimate dialect. I think of Monty Python's "Holy Grail" where the

French commander calls out to the "English /kuhnigits/."



...pronouncing the word exactly as a native speaker of Middle English

would have.

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