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- From: scotty@netcom.com (J Scott Peter)
- Subject: Re: The Second Syllable of "Clinton"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.111820.20849@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan24.091351.13915@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:18:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.091351.13915@cc.uow.edu.au> boon@cc.uow.edu.au (Boon Chye Lee) writes:
- >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".
- >
- >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.
-
- I've never heard anybody pronounce it "Clin-n", if by that you mean
- how the word "Clinnon" would be pronounced. Americans say "Clin-tn", but
- often with a glottal stop substituted for the "t". This is perfectly
- regular English. The "t" gets changed to a glottal when followed by
- an "n", when spoken quickly.
-
- Of course, I've always called him "Clintoid", ever since I knew he was
- going to win.
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