| Subject: | Re: English IPA transcription of "er" vs "rer" [UTF-8] |
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| From: | "Paul J Kriha" |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:31:33 +1200 |
| Newsgroups: | sci.lang, alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english |
<andrew_woode@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1156925219.166963.81480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > Robert Bannister wrote: > > > > > What about standard spelling? I have only ever seen "furore". > > > > Are you in Italy? <Furore> looks very foreign. > > Furore is the normal UK version, though irrelevant to this discussion > as the pronunciation is fundamentally different as well. <Furor> looks very foreign down here as far away from Italy as one could possibly be. :-) CED says it's <furore> everywhere except US. pjk |
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