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- From: boon@cc.uow.edu.au (Boon Chye Lee)
- Subject: The Second Syllable of "Clinton"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.091351.13915@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 09:13:51 GMT
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- Watching the inauguration ceremony of Bill Clinton on TV, I was
- struck by how his name is pronounced over there in the US:
- "Clin-n" as opposed to how it's pronounced here in Australia,
- "Clin-tn".
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- A similar example is the name Martin, which I've heard Americans pronounce
- as "Mar-n" (in 2 syllables), whereas it would be rendered "Mar-tin" here.
-
- Is this just a US thing, or do Canadians do it too?
-
- Just curious...
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- Boon
- Economics Dept
- University of Wollongong
- NSW, Australia
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