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 Message 296,909 of 297,380 
 Christian Weisgerber to Ruud Harmsen 
 Re: Galveston 
 21 Mar 25 16:14:07 
 
From: naddy@mips.inka.de

On 2025-03-21, Ruud Harmsen  wrote:

> In American English, Galveston apparently rhymes with "gun" and
> "twenty-one". This seems quite weird from my perspective, and I
> suppose from a British English perspective.

Well, it's /ˈɡælvɪstən/, /-vəs-/.  What did you expect?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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