On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:35:53PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 09:11:21PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > When you say "have a nice day", do you pronounce the 'y' at all? Is it > > Daaaa, or Daaaai? Dipthongs are there for a reason; they differentiate > > words when spoken verbally (try listening to someone from New York > > speak, no dipthongs). I say Daaaimon. > > Not true. Try the lawn-guy-land accent for instance .. has the ugliest > and most exaggerated diphthongs of any English dialect I have heard. Who's the lawn-guy? I wasn't suggesting to exaggerate the dipthong but to use it. I don't say daaayamon. I don't have a dictionary that gives the history of a word with me. What is the origin of the 'ae' in daemon? It was origionally from greek mythology but I neither read nor speak ancient greek. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
