home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!demon!pizzabox.demon.co.uk!gtoal
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Hi Fi etc
- Message-ID: <9301262334.AA18472@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:34:53 GMT
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
- Lines: 16
-
- : 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?
-
- Suddenly feeling unsure, I checked *my* dictionary (well, the first one to
- hand and the one I prefer - Chambers) and it has /fi-/ as preferred use and
- /fei-/ as an alternative. So I guess we're both right. It's just I've
- never heard that variant. Say, do you pronounce finance differently from
- financial, by any chance?
-
- G
- (Mind you, I'm the sort of luddite who stresses the first syllable of
- Thes-au-rus, so what do I know...)
- [Blame my Granny for that one...]
-