Date:    Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:44:34 +0200
<br>From:    David Sutcliffe <david.sutcliffe[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TRAD.UPF.ES>
<br>Subject: Re: pron
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<br>To Rima, and the List
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<br>Just to round out the survey on -ically,
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<br>In my dialect (London area of England) the schwa is practic'ly never
<br>pronounced. I would say that in "accidentally" the schwa is sometimes
<br>pronounced, and in "confidentially" it's always pronounced (for fairly
<br>obvious reasons).
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<br>Probably to find English speakers who regularly pronounced the schwa in
<br>the -ically words you'd have to go to bilingual Wales, or the Caribbean,
<br>or to India - that's my guess, any way.
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<br>Re: dictionaries: The Collins Spanish (-English ) Dictionary gives the
<br>schwa-less form as the only pronunciation for "practically" but the
<br>scwa-full  form only for "specifically", "tragically", "economically"...
<br>(?)
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<br>David Sutcliffe
<br>David Sutcliffe
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