Date:  Wed, 4 Oct 1995 05:40:57 -0400

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: pronunciation note



what's this about the death of "albeit"? i use it all the time.

(and i assume i pronounce it "correctly").



as for newark, the newark in upstate new york is pronounced "new

work", but those of us who have suffered through it derisively call

it "nurk, nyurk."



lynne



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