Re: [Very-OT] Re: ü

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 13:06:36 EST


At 11:54 -0600 2002-01-23, David Starner wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:52:57AM -0500, Patrick Andries wrote:
>> >By the way, I pronounce the h in philharmonic.
>>
>> I believe this is not what my Webster and my Fowler's Modern English
> > Usage recommend.

My dialect is my dialect.

>"A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English" (Kenyon & Knott) have it
>as an accepted variant.

The American Heritage Dictionary gives it first, with the h-less one second.

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