From cowan Wed Nov 15 10:39:53 1995 Subject: Re: buffer vowel From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:39:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511151433.JAA23693@locke.ccil.org> from "Ivan A Derzhanski" at Nov 15, 95 03:56:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 499 Status: OR Message-ID: la .iVAN. cusku di'e > When I'm speaking Bulgarian, I always call the river that flows > through London /'temza/. It's not that I find the /T/ sound hard > to pronounce (and I have no problem saying /D@ 'TeImz/ when I'm > speaking English), [...] Am I missing some subtle joke here? As an iggerant American, I was always taught that "Thames" in that context is /tEmz/, although there are towns in the U.S. that are called /TeImz/. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.