Will McGugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Hansen wrote: > > John J. Lee wrote: > > > >> I will never pronounce thorough 'thurrow', though. One must draw a > >> line. > > How *do* you pronounce it? "Thurrow" seems to match > > how I say the word, along with everyone else I've > > ever met (until now?). > > I would pronounce it like 'thurra', since I'm Scottish.
Me too (England). > It always > makes me cringe when Americans pronounce 'Edinburgh' as 'edin-burrow' > rather then 'edin-burra'. Edin-br. (There's a short vowel (a "schwa"?) on the end there that I missed off because there's no unambigous ASCII symbol for it... But it's the same vowel a child uses - at least in England! - to say "r" when running through the alphabet, before they've learned the names (ay bee cee dee) for the letters.) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
