From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: often, government, toward(s) 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2268
Posted: Mon Jul 12 06:21:41 1982
Received: Mon Jul 12 06:21:41 1982
References: watmath.2989 

	In Toronto, Ontario, I was taught to say 'often' with the 't'.
Since my parents both pronounce the 't' this wasnt very hard for me, but
I remember some of the other new-comers to the 'proper' school i went to
had a horrible time until they learned to say 'ofTen', at least within the
teacher's hearing!  I remember one girl solved the problem by switching to
the word 'usually'...but that didnt help her in reading, where she got rather
picked upon...

We also all had to say goverNment...so there ought to be a lot of 'N'
pronouncers around here at any rate...

Next question:

How do you pronounce 'toward(s)'? Do you spell it with the 's'? Most Canadians
do, and most Americans dont.  I say to-ward, and not tord...but I hear a lot
of 'tord' and have some strange memory that it is the preferred pronounciation.
There are other ones ... 'route' to me rhymes with 'out' and not 'boot'...
and I DONT pronounce the d in judge, and have tried to and doubt I could to
save my life.  Are there any other weird words out there which come to mind?

laura creighton

decvax!utzoo!laura