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In Reply to: RE: Tinnitus posted by hifitommy on July 12, 2017 at 13:40:58
Your first example is the more British pronunciation; your second is more the American pronunciation.
Good TED talk. Yes, it appears to be a CNS phenomenon, in the same way that pain is a CNS phenomenon.
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TIN-it-tus, emphasis on the "tin".
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
I didn't want to correct the guy correcting "us" heathens but, of course, what he was trying to communicate (but didn't) was what you have stated (correctly) here.
tin-eye-tis with a right nice, long slow 'eye'.
It reminds me of landing in London and not being able to understand the cabbie at first and he was a full blooded Brit.
-Rod
Only "ah", so it would be tin-ah-tus, y'all.
Your British cabbie story reminded me that I was talking to someone the other day about watching the film Nowhere Boy, which depicts John Lennon's youth. The Scouse accents are so heavy I have trouble understanding parts of it, and said my DVD should have come with subtitles.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
And I have a friend from Madrid who visited me in Puerto Rico and was constantly challenged by locals who wanted to know where he learned "his Spanish."
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