I've heard that English and Russian vie for most words. Can anyone dilate
April 19, 2006, 08:40
zmježd
How retro! a word count gap. To the vocabulary shelters!
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
April 19, 2006, 08:59
arnie
quote:
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.
April 19, 2006, 11:05
zmježd
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.)
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—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
April 20, 2006, 04:17
arnie
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.
April 20, 2006, 07:48
zmježd
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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—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
April 20, 2006, 11:32
arnie
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.
April 20, 2006, 12:04
dalehileman
zm: Of course I did, but a preposition shouldn't be used to end a sentence with
