Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:48:41 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1191782921.133757.305920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:

[...]

[<woz>:]
You said it would rhyme with <Oz>, which is to say it
would be pronounced like standard <was>.

No. <Oz> is [Az]; no common U.S. pronunciation of <was> has
[A].

Brian
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