From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 16:08:50 MST
the animated silicon love doll wrote:
> say, zim/vim/sim (or zer/ver/ser) don't flow at all - him/her don't have a
> consonant at the beginning and we're used to saying those, so it's much
> easier to keep the g-neutral equivalent starting with a vowel too.
Pardon? "H" is a consonant, at least in American English. I thought Received
Pronunciation had an audible "H", too.
MMB
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