Member posted April 19, 2006 08:17
I've heard that English and Russian vie for most words. Can anyone dilate
Member How retro! a word count gap. To the vocabulary shelters!
Ceci n'est pas un seing .
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Can anyone dilate
Only when giving birth.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member Perhaps he meant
dilate on ? And not to start anything, but is the insertion of an epenthetic vowel in pronunciations of
dilation only an Americanism? Or does it occur in British English. too? (Cf. the pronunciation of
realtor .)
[killed two typos with one swat]
This message has been edited. Last edited by: zmježd , June 10, 2006 09:24 Ceci n'est pas un seing .
Member Um... Not sure. Where is the vowel inserted? We usually say die-lay-shun. Do you say die-lay-shee-un?
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member I don't say it, but some say /daj@lejS@n/ with a schwa between the first diphthong and the el.
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This message has been edited. Last edited by: zmježd , April 20, 2006 08:09 Ceci n'est pas un seing .
Member Making it like the beginning of
dialogue , etc? I've never heard it pronounced that way.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member zm: Of course I did, but a preposition shouldn't be used to end a sentence with
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Only when giving birth.
Or...when we examine the eyes.
