#30, RE: For Love of the Grammer Nazi
Posted by JeanneHedge on Mar-20-14 at 09:12 PM
In response to message #13
>>> Few
>>>customer service or shipping people I talk to on the phone ever get
>>>Millinocket right on the first try;
>>
>>Is Millinocket pronounced differently from how it is spelled? I've
>>been saying "Mill-in-ocket", with the "ocket" as in "rocket."
>
>That's close; the middle syllable is usually sort of semi-elided, with
>the vowel stuck on the end of "mill" as a schwa and the "n" attached
>to the remainder of the word. Milla-nocket?
Jeanne
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