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Poster: tsuwm
Subject: Re: Odd pronunciations

yeah... or Throat-warbler Mangrove from Raymond Luxury-Yacht?
Dear Tsuwm,
Is this an answer to my St.John (SinGin) query. If so I am clueless ... or incredibly uninformed

I was piling on, mom. while the Brits are well-known for extra letters in their orthography, when it comes to orthoepy, they have a tendency to lose track of whole bunches of them. Monty Python was known to (also) ridicule this trait, the most risible example being the one I chose above.

another aside: why do you suppose that orthoepy has two (2) accepted pronunciations?