Re: Embarrassing names across languages

From: Nigel Greenwood (ndsg_mmii_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: 19 Oct 2004 02:08:38 -0700

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote

> 'Horseshoe', 'whore shoe', and 'whore's shoe' are all
> different for me, even in rapid speech, when the last
> approaches /ZS/.

It's been a long time since we had a contribution on this ng from that
old stalwart, Mike Hunt.

Nigel

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