On 18 Oct 2006 at 19:59, Mark D Lew wrote: > For counter-example, the word > envelope is pronounced like "on-velope" by roughly the same percentage > of Americans who say "nucular", but you rarely hear complaints about > it.
But the "nucular" pronunciation gets the letters in the wrong order, while the "on-velope" is simply a holdover pronunciation from its French origins (I would presume). There are no English pronunciation rules that I know of that treat the reversal of the letter sounds as correct in any case. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
