Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/31/07 23:35, cga2000 wrote: > [snip] > >> Not true. Try the lawn-guy-land accent for instance .. has the ugliest > >> and most exaggerated diphthongs of any English dialect I have heard. > > lawn-guy-land? Long Island. But my question ... Is / pronounced "root" or "slash", as in "Is the file in slash-root-bin or just slash-bin?" -- Kent