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From: jkelly@ms_unix1.vitro.com (Charles J. Kelly)
Subject: Re: Syllable dropping in English
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Hung Jung Lu (hlu@wam.umd.edu) wrote:

: Is it my idea or in the US
: memory is often pronounced as memry
: and vegetable as vegtable? Matter of
: fact, I don't think I've ever heard
: anyone saying ve-ge-ta-ble as a four-syllable
: word. 

: -- Ekki

You're right about vegetable for native US speakers, but my
mother-in-law who was from a small town near Manchester, England always
said ve-ge-ta-ble.  I wonder if this was peculiar to that section of
England or do most English pronounce it that way?

Jim
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Jim Kelly  jkelly@ms_unix1.ms.vitro.com | God doesn't play dice with the world.
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