Talk:Warspite/@comment-26843989-20160813132006/@comment-35182244-20160813210328

A little update. On closer inspection of Johnson's Dictionary that Cools0812 provided. I noticed that the dictionary advises you to pronounce administrative and admire in the same way, while admiral or admiralty are to be pronounced differently from them. I am quite sure you pronounce administrator and admiral the same way nowadays, not differently. If what Johnson wrote here is true, then ad-MY-ral is a distinct pronunciation from what it is today.



This further highlights my point on complementary distribution and their allophonic nature. [i] and [y] are interchangeable with eachother.

What can we say to this? @%$# this shit. Let me go and find my professor.