Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: often pronounced OFF-en Message-ID: <2737@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 00:54:36 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2737 Posted: Thu Sep 20 00:54:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:02:20 EDT References:<359@houxb.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 10 In article <359@houxb.UUCP> hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) writes: > >Another word with dropped "t": Connecticut, excep if you are John Cleese. I don't know anyone who drops the T. It is the second C that is silent. Or do you actually pronounce it Con-nek-i-kut? -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar