Re: The Business Memoir - the ``whom'' question


"John Atkinson" <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

Colin Fine wrote:

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:

"Joachim Pense" <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

Am Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:29:59 -0400 schrieb Brian M. Scott:

"Donkey" is the usual word for the animal in British English, too.
"Ass"
hardly ever means "donkey" outside the Bible or Shakespeare, but is
more
commonly used to mean "annoying and/or stupid person".

I had a teacher who pronounced 'ass' meaning 'donkey' identically
with
'arse'. Much hilarity ensued.

Perhaps they was American -- though then the pronunciation would
presumably have been "arse" the same as "ass."

More likely they were a Brit from north of the &/a line.

If Colin means [A:s] rather than [as], then his teacher could also have been
an old-fashioned RP speaker. Jones's "English Pronouncing Dictionary" (14th
edition) gives "'ass' [@s], ([A:s], esp. as term of contempt)".

Regards,
Ekkehard


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