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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: "Margarine" Thread Revisited: Adding "-ed" etc. to "medevac/medivac"
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:36:16 GMT
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I <lilandbr@scn.org> (Leland Bryant Ross) wrote:
>
>>How about a general rule (which of course won't help tell Resa how to 
>>spell "plattoad") to the effect that word-final hard c keeps its k-sound 
>>no matter what, if any, suffixes/endings may be attached to it?  Will 
>>that work?

To which glen@scooter.heurikon.com (Glen Ecklund) says:

>Nope.  I'm sure there is a better example, but suppose that "pac" becomes
>a verb.  Then your rule would require that "pacing" and "paced" be
>pronounced with hard c's.

I am unconvinced.  I think when "pac"* is used as a verb--and this is 
English, after all, so it would be foolish to imagine such use wasn't 
already being made of it--its past tense *will*(=does) have a hard c, in 
fact I think it's a perfect rhyme with fact and 100% homophonous with packed.

*I am assuming (though the *meaning* is actually most likely immaterial) 
that this word is the acronym for "Political Action Committee", an 
American institution developed to raise money for political candidates, 
parties, and lobbying purposes, and (most importantly) to circumvent laws 
intended to regulate and limit the collection and distribution of such 
funds for such purposes.  [Do other anglophone nations have PACs (in my 
idiolect it's an all-caps type word), and if so, do they *call* them PACs 
or what?]  

Leland
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