- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:37:07 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Interesting. That had not occurred to me, since in fact they are quite aurally distinguishable in all the pronunciations I've heard. If there are others of which I was not aware, I apologize. In <Br.E>, the difference is restricted to a single phoneme, "s" v. "z" in "pre-z-ident" v. "pre-s-edent". I do not know if this is also the case in <Am.E>, but if I were dependent on a speech synthesiser I am not certain I would hear the difference between the two, particularly if I were /expecting/ to hear "precedent". ** Phil.
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