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To: Clarksterh who wrote (1026)	11/15/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12235

Clark, English/American/Kiwi/etc must drive newcomers nuts. No rhyme or reason. People inventing more crazy stuff every day. Changing so what made sense 30 years ago has changed meaning today. We pronounce "hiccough" as "hick up" without a pause between. Same as everyone. There is probably a correct way of describing the pronunciation, but that should do it. parentsplace.com As new potential parents, we were surprised to see regular jumping by the baby in the womb. Asking the paediatrician at the next appointment, we learned that it was hiccups [hiccoughs]. We realized immediately that that fitted what we'd seen. Also, when the baby was born, it was already adept at thumb-sucking, but gave it up immediately on discovering the satisfactions of sucking interminably on a nipple [which had to toughen up pretty quickly - they are not designed to be instantly happy about being mauled by a newborn]. Al-u-min-ee-um is how we pronounce [and spell] Aluminum. Alumina is the oxide of Aluminium which lives in Australia, comes here and by electrical attack using cheap hydroelectricity is reduced to metallic aluminium. Then it is made into aircraft, some of which seem to crash in the ocean to the NE of New York. How come? They don't do that when they take off from Heathrow. Colour and color sound the same. But Yanks say DEE-fense and we say deFence. Again, there is surely a correct way of explaining that. But who cares? As long as we all know what the other is saying. Helps to know where people grew up if they have a weird accent [like Americans and English]. Mqurice