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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: Have to
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.163046.1248@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1993Jan20.135433.8397@pixel.kodak.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:30:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.135433.8397@pixel.kodak.com> john@liebnitz.ssd.kodak.com (John Hall) writes:
- >Do you pronounce the word "have" differently in the following
- >statements?
- >
- > I have two apples.
- >
- > I have to leave.
- >
- >Here in western New York I hear the first as "hav", but the second as
- >"haf".
-
- I believe the "haff" pronunciation in the second instance is more or less
- consistently the case across native speakers of the language.
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