XPost: alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english, nl.taal   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday or thereabouts, Ruud Harmsen declared ...   
   > As a non-native speaker, can you hear, and make, the difference   
   > between “We built this city on rock and roll” (not one of my favourite   
   > songs by the way; don’t know why) and the present tense variant ‘We   
   > build this city …’?   
   >   
   > I can.   
   >   
   > Not hard, is it? Easier than ‘Henry VI’s throne’, anyway.   
   >   
   > Source: https://rudhar.com/fonetics/build.htm   
      
   Maybe this will help others:   
      
      
      
   (I wonder how many of the Committee Randall knows by sight?  Is there a   
   site I could cite?)   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   precious heavy water.   
   _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)