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- From: evan@hpl.hp.com (Evan Kirshenbaum)
- Subject: Re: Hi Fi etc
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:24:49 GMT
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- In article <CANNAM.93Jan27103700@borodin.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
- >
- >In article <C1H6t9.GI@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham
- >Toal) writes:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan26.160452.5917@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall) writes:
- > : finance
- >
- > Duh, you appear to be British - is /fei-nans/ a new trend here that I
- > missed? finance has sounded like fiddlesticks! for as long as I remember.
- >
- >Uh? To me finance is /fei-nans/, and always has been. My dictionary
- >agrees with me. Or is this a bizarre joke?
-
- Now I'm getting confused.
-
- My dictionary lists the following pronunciations for "finance":
- /f@ 'n&n(t)s/, /'faI n&n(t)s/, and /faI 'n&n(t)s/. The most common
- American pronunciation (which I use) is the second, generally without
- the /t/. I was under the impression that the British tend to use the
- first. /fei nans/ (or, more probably, /feI n&ns/) would have the
- first syllable rhyme with "May" and "They".
-
- Is this really what you meant, and (if so) where is it common?
-
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