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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: pronunciation question.
Date: 1999/06/03
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* Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>
| Steve didn't ask about CONS.  I usually say "CONZ", though at one time
| I tried very hard to teach myself to say "CONSS" (like the soft
| S in "consonant") to distinguish it verbally from the plural of COND
| which is necessarily pronounced "CON[D]Z" by english speakers. I
| still sometimes say "CONSS" but mostly I just cope with the ambiguity
| of "CONZ" when it comes up by adding extra verbiage.

  funny you should mention that.  I was talking to my girlfriend about
  differences similar to the tonal qualities of Norwegian in English, and
  house (n) vs house (vb) is one example of using an unvoiced s for the
  noun and a voiced s (z) for the verb.  she asked if it followed that
  /konz/ should produce a /kons/.  maybe you can answer, Kent?

#:Erik
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