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From: wing@pegasus.com (Wing Ng)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "five sixths"
Organization: Pegasus Information Systems
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 04:52:17 GMT
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In article <Dn57zu.FrK@tigger.jvnc.net>, Charles G Waldman <cgw@pgt.com> wrote:
>In article <Dn2Ju6.8rz@udcf.gla.ac.uk>,
>	Scrip Criagips <9340951c@student.gla.ac.uk> writes:
>>stevemac@indirect.com (Stephen T MacGregor) wrote:
>>
>>>  Slowing down doesn't help some people; there are sound combinations 
>>>that they simply cannot make.  I had a sergeant in the Army who simply 
>>>could not say "breakfasts" -- it came out something like "breakfusses".
>>>  Others have trouble with foreign names, like Pfeiffer and Knutson.
>>>
>>SC: I myself am unable to say the word "birthday" - whenever I try 
>>SC:there's a weird clicking noise that occurs during the "th" bit....
>>
>>
>
>I've heard a lot of people say "birfday".
>
>

Many native speakers in the U.S. have trouble with nuclear
and Realtor, they go "nuckalear" and "Realertor", don't
know why, we who speak English as a second language have
no trouble with pronouncing these two words.

Wing

