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Originally Posted By: Buffalo ShrdluI can understand the idea of the "ch" sounding like a second syllable. it has a weight of its own (at least the way I pronounce it). those big chunky consonants sometimes want to stand on their own.
but I wouldn't have thought of it as a separate syllable.
So in other words, it is, within the English lexicon, actually the "ar " sound in March that is deemed the syllabic aspect. Thus rendering the two distinct sounds as just consonates and dialect?
Last edited by AlimaeHP; 01/22/2011 11:23 PM. Reason: pandigital stikes with what it thought should be.
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