Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!

"David Springthorpe" <david.springthorpe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 01 May 2008 02:51:06 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>The producers of 'Home and Away' have got the actors pronouncing
>>'progress' like Americans do.. PROG-ress instead of pro-GRESS. Duh!
>>What's next?? will actors be lying on gRASS instead of lawns? drinking
>>water from faucets instead of taps? why on earth do ppl think it's cool
>>or necessary to copy everything the Yanks do and say?!
>
> I think you'll find one's a noun, the other's a verb.....

I don't think his phonetic spelling was clear. Perhaps he was referring to

the different ways of pronouncing the noun. We use a long "o", yanks use a

short "o", both with stress on the first syllable.