[ExI] Captchas

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Aug 13 19:05:31 UTC 2011


On 8/13/2011 1:48 PM, David Lubkin wrote:

> My British
> stepmother insisted that "herb" was pronounced identical to the name
> Herb. For some reason, my Brooklyn father agreed with her. They
> claimed that no one pronounces it /erb/, and pronouncing it that way
> was just my ignorance from being isolated from English speakers.

Aussies find "erbs" an especially comical pronunciation, but then 
everyone else laughs at Aussie-speech, mite.

> Do you call the last letter of the alphabet zed?

Si.

Damien Broderick



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