Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05: I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and 'tuna'. Live and learn. I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread rusi
On Mar 24, 7:25 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Ha! Sweet! (Or should I say suet?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/03/2013 14:25, Stefan Behnel wrote: Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05: I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and 'tuna'. Live and learn. I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Stefan For many years I've felt it was wrong that

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-21, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it rhotic. Well, there are

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Larry Hudson
On 03/20/2013 09:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote: I did an horrible mistake [...] is 'h' a vowel in french? big snip... This-language-lesson-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-thorn-wynn-and-ash- ly y'rs, As a point of totally irrelevant

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread David H Wild
In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted word. Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread istjanichtzufassen
Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:26 AM, istjanichtzufas...@gmail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-21, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: By the way, the n in an is not the only such bridging sound. In Shakespearean times, it was usual to use mine in the same fashion: In many (most?) modern, non-rhotic, dialects of English one inserts an intrusive

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Peter Pearson ppearson@nowhere.invalid wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it rhotic. I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.3606.1363907158.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British

Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote: I did an horrible mistake [...] is 'h' a vowel in french? No it is not, and writing an horrible is a trivial typo which can easily happen if you start thinking an awful ... (for example) and then change to horrible. Been there, done that. But