I think that you know that you're all wrong :-)
Chris
On 1 Aug 2013, at 15:41, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the few things I remember specifically from the linguistics portion of
> my training as an anthropologist is that when we read words we tend to
> "pronounce" them in our thoughts differently than we might pronounce them
> aloud. This becomes apparent to me when I read British spellings, such as
> Chris's "colour" in this post. My head tends to give it a bit of an extension
> when the "u" comes in--kul-LURE, rather than kul-LOR.
>
> It's also there where Brits insist of retaining the "s" where there should be
> a "z". <wink> Realise reads differently to me than realize. More sibilance,
> if sibilance is possible in "thinking" pronunciation.
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