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Re: Fortnight

#12222 12/14/00 04:24 PM

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fortnight qua fortnit
No, Marty, I really did mean short vowel in last (unstressed) syllable. To be accurate, it's not really pronounced as short 'i'; being in the unstressed final syllable, it's actually pronouced more like schwa.

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