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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Lunatic orthography (was Re: Esperanto as a stepping stone?
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 21:10:53 GMT
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In article <rharmsen.162.000B6689@knoware.nl>,
Ruud Harmsen <rharmsen@knoware.nl> wrote:
>In article <D2ILHy.3nF@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>>If you're just asking about how it sounds, I believe I pronounce "with the"
>>in rapid speech as "wIT@", but "with that" as "wiD&t".  
>wIT@ could also be understood as "with a", or is that wiD@ ?

So far as I can hear, in rapid speech I pronounce "with the" and "with a"
the same.  
