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- From: neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: RE: Hi Fi etc
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160452.5917@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:04:52 GMT
- References: <16B5C7FAF.VSLARRY@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il> <8350@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <TSOS.260.727689883@uni-duesseldorf.de> <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- In article <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm) writes:
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- ** This is interesting, because the "fi" sound in English is similarly
- ** ridiculous. The word is not pronounced "FI-del-i-tee" where the first
- ** syllable rhymes with "eye." The word is pronounced "fih-DEL-ih-tee"
- ** with a short "I" sound and the accent on the second syllable.
- **
- ** (U.K. usage may differ.)
-
- Everyone I know says "fih-DEL-ih-tee", but I can think of lots of words
- that _do_ have the "FI" sound:
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- finance
- five
- file
- lots of words ending "-fy" : qualify, mistify etc
-
- These must have similar pronunciations in the US - the sound to me is exactly the same sound as in "hi-fi".
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- | Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, | Neil M.G. Gall |
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