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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Question: Vowelless word
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Not so very long ago, eassong@yorku.ca (Gord Easson) said...

>I would pronounce 'nth' as /enth/ out loud although in my head it would be
>/nth/ after the model of /m/ in 'mmm mmm' good and /n/ in 'two 'n' two'. 

  I guess the telling criterion of whether the word "nth" has a vowel in 
it (before the N, of course), would be whether one would say and write...

    ...a nth-degree equation...

or

    ...an nth-degree equation...

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