Re: How can it possibly be pron. "FARV"?

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:07:34 -0400

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:54:16 -0700, Skitt
<skitt99@comcast.net> wrote in
<news:2sjlujF1kp61uU1@uni-berlin.de> in
sci.lang,alt.usage.english,alt.languages.english:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> Enrico C wrote:
>>> Tarkus wrote:|
>>>> James wrote:

>>>>> Re: QB Brett Favre. The V comes before the R. How can the case
>>>>> possibly be made that it's pron. "FARV"?

>>>> How can Wednesday be pronounced Wendsday?

>>> Isn't it pronounced /wensday/ ?

>> That phonemicization would correspond to a spelling wence-dye.

> Dye? Oh, in Australia, yes.

Anywhere: /day/ is a normal phonemic representation of the
standard pronunciation of <die> and <dye>. Enrico probably
meant /wenzdey/.

Brian

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