Re: Ada Lovelace

From	Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
Date	2024-07-17 16:08 +0000
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Subject	Re: Ada Lovelace
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In article <v78ma0$1pu19$2@dont-email.me>,
   Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> Nope. That sound doesn't really exist in Czech I think. The unstressed 
> "u" is also missing, and that's very widely used in English, as the 
> terminal schwa sound. We don't say "lett-er" or "butt-er", we say 
> "let-uh" and "but-uh

I think a lot of that sort of thing will depend on regional accents.

I find it amusing the way some of the people on gardener's world seem to
say "plaarnts" instead of plants.

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      Re: Ada Lovelace Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk> - 2024-06-04 23:06 +0100
  Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-16 18:14 +0100
    Re: Ada Lovelace Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 10:54 +0100
      Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 16:00 +0100
        Re: Ada Lovelace Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2024-07-17 16:14 +0100
          Re: Ada Lovelace Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 17:22 +0100
            Re: Ada Lovelace Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 21:15 +0000
              Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-18 11:12 +0100
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                Re: Ada Lovelace Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2024-07-19 19:25 +0100
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