When my wife was pregnant, the nurses would always talk about how many
sonnemeters she was dilated. They did not accent ohter words in a similar
way. I finally determined that they were referring to "centimeters".
Rick
Dr. Richard L. Froman
Psychology Department
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:37 PM
To: tips
Subject: Re: Booting bouton
I can go along with this one. There is a dude in the "Mind" series that
says,
"sigh-naps" though. What's the skinny on that?
- The Other M.S.
Stephen Black wrote:
> The on-line
> medical dictionary didn't have it, but the regular one at
> http://www.dictionary.com/ did.
>
> Unfortunately, the pronunciation marks don't reproduce with my
> mailer, but they specify boot-ON (accent on the second
> syllable).
>
> Case closed?
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