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- From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Mort and Reaper Man
- Message-ID: <CC.92Dec22093228@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:32:28 GMT
- References: <724995472snx@warren.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In-Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk's message of 21 Dec 92 20:37:52 GMT
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- In article <724995472snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
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- In article <memo.821380@cix.compulink.co.uk> kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >The doggerel is spoken around here with the word 'wake' instead of thick
- >(strong i'th'yarm 'n wake i'th'yead) but there's the rub. Wake could be
- >(a)wake or weak, as both would end up with a similar pronunciation.
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- Or it could be a third word such as the one I mentioned, as recently
- discussed in sci.lang.
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- "Weak" clearly makes most sense: strong and weak. I've known people to
- pronounce it "wake", even if you haven't.
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- -- Chris. cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
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