Subj : Patent shoes
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : Dallas Hinton
Date : Mon Nov 18 2019 16:29:46

Hi Anton -- on Nov 17 2019 at 12:28, you wrote:

AS> Whereas  patent  medicine  is  a  patent fraud.  What is the
AS> difference in the pronunciation of `patent' in the first and
AS> second occurences in the previous sentence?

There's no difference in pronunciation, regardelss of usage, although
some countries say "pa-tent" and some say "pae-tent".


Cheers... Dallas

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