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   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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