Re: Argh! Grammatical pain!!

Doh! that would be DANES

sheesh

patrisha feeling sheepish
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"Hurricane7" <hurricaneknot7@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There is my whole problem....it is Soren that says I say it
> wrong...clearly those days have biased ears
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> Patricia
> my momma didn't rayse no fool
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> "Cheryl Perkins" <cperkins@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Rik Shepherd <RikShepherd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Patricia wrote
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>>>>it
>>>> seems I don't pronounce it correctly and yet have said it that way all
>>>> my
>>>> life (shaddup JohnP)....
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>>>> as in tomorrow is "chewsday"
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>>> When it's clearly "chooseday"...
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>>> Followed by Whensday.
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>> On a student exchange program, I had a Danish room-mate who spoke
>> excellent English. It took me a while to realize she was observing me
>> closely as a kind of educational exercise. One day, she complained about
>> her teachers; they'd made her life miserable getting her to day 'nyew',
>> and now she was listening to a native English speaker who didn't even
>> bother; who said 'noo', the pronounciation that seems to come more
>> naturally to Danes. I said helpfully that I *could* say 'nyew' if she
>> preferred, but that didn't seem to help.
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>> I do say 'Tyewsday', with only a hint of a 'ch' instead of the 't'. At
>> least I think I do. It's harder than you might think to hear your own
>> speech with an unbiased ear.
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>> --
>> Cheryl
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