At 09:10 -0400 2002-08-21, James E. Agenbroad wrote:
> > >There is also fo'c'sle, the abridged version of "forecastle". :-)
I wrote:
> > There are no glottal stops there.
Jim wrote:
> I only wanted to add an English example of multiple apostrophes in a
>word. No made no claim for how it was pronounced.
True. But lo! you have inadvertently misspelled it! It isn't fo'c'sle
-- it's fo'c's'le! (New Oxford, 2001). It's pronounced ['fouksel].
Wow.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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