Dear General Vowell:
I must admit I haven't paid much attention to the pronunciation thread. When the front lines started discussing aunts and ants, I decided this battle sounded more like a Sunday picnic, so I shipped myself back to the Serengeti to visit my old water horse friends. tsuwm tried to teach me how to improve my usage of thetical, but I became so excited about seeing the springboks, wildebeests, elephants (with their genuine elephant ears for flapping in the wind for ready perusal), giraffes, and (oh, stop, my beating heart) hippopotami, that I didn't notice anything you'd said on the pronunciation thread.
IOU a look there, General, on the thread, but far be in from me to criticize much from my vantage point. Keep in mind: I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!
Best regards,
Sgt. DubDub
