Subject: Re: pronunciation question. From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/06/03 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3137373769616824@naggum.no> * Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com> | Steve didn't ask about CONS. I usually say "CONZ", though at one time | I tried very hard to teach myself to say "CONSS" (like the soft | S in "consonant") to distinguish it verbally from the plural of COND | which is necessarily pronounced "CON[D]Z" by english speakers. I | still sometimes say "CONSS" but mostly I just cope with the ambiguity | of "CONZ" when it comes up by adding extra verbiage. funny you should mention that. I was talking to my girlfriend about differences similar to the tonal qualities of Norwegian in English, and house (n) vs house (vb) is one example of using an unvoiced s for the noun and a voiced s (z) for the verb. she asked if it followed that /konz/ should produce a /kons/. maybe you can answer, Kent? #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century