Subject: Found Fictionary

From: Elliott Moreton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:23:11 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

You never know when fictionary is about to happen to you.  Just came 
across the following (two phoneticians are criticizing two other 
phoneticians' methodology):

	The list also included words that are outdated or of only
	regional use, as well as extremely rare wordforms (one of 
	which the authors of the present study, both native speakers
	of German, had to look up in a dictionary [2]).

	[2]  e.g. _schrag_ ("manufacture x-shaped wooden bar
	constructions to serve as table legs or roof-gable
	delimiter elements", imp. sg.)

(from H. G. Piroth and P. M. Janker (2004). Speaker-dependent differences 
in voicing and devoicing of German obstruents.  Journal of Phonetics 
32:81-109.)

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