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Re: dropping letters as one writes Faldage #179054 09/06/08 01:02 AM
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand
The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania	Originally Posted By: Faldage Originally Posted By: The Pook Whilst on different pronunciations, it's interesting that North Americans say Lootenn't for Lieutenant whilst English people say Leftenant. I would say Lyewtenant or L'tenant. Don't the English pronounce it one way for Navy lieutenants and the other for Army lieutenants? From wikipedia: "British naval tradition preserved an intermediate pronunciation: /lə'tɛnənt/. This is not recognized as current by the OED, however, and by 1954 the Royal Canadian Navy, at least, regarded it as "obsolescent" even while regarding "the army's 'LEF-tenant'" to be "a corruption of the worst sort"." There is no certainty as to where the labial 'f' or 'v' ending variants on the first syllable came from. OED rejects the idea that it was in Middle English from a French variant on lieu, loef. It seems more likely that it was a spelling pronunciation because 'u' and 'v' used to be interchangeable, but there is no consensus on that either.

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dropping letters as one writes	Jean Florian	08/30/08 12:36 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	08/31/08 04:32 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	tsuwm	08/31/08 05:12 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Faldage	08/31/08 12:30 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/01/08 01:59 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	olly	09/01/08 03:39 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/01/08 10:59 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Faldage	09/01/08 12:09 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/02/08 02:19 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	latishya	09/02/08 03:33 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	of troy	09/02/08 01:15 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/02/08 11:47 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	twosleepy	09/03/08 02:14 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	of troy	09/03/08 01:28 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/04/08 01:37 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Faldage	09/04/08 01:49 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/05/08 12:42 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Faldage	09/05/08 11:26 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/06/08 01:02 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Myridon	09/05/08 02:33 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/06/08 01:10 AM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Buffalo Shrdlu	09/07/08 08:13 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	Myridon	09/03/08 05:30 PM
Re: dropping letters as one writes	The Pook	09/02/08 11:46 PM

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