Spelling pronunciations

Spelling pronunciations of the NASAL + HOMORGANIC PLOSIVE (lamb, tong) and the wh- type (where, which) have already been mentioned on nasals and approximants, above. Consider also Wednesday /wεdnεsdε/, with a PLOSIVE + HOMORGANIC NASAL sequence. Other near-regular spelling pronunciations are based on st letter sequences, as in castle /kastεl/. In the area of vowels, we find ia pronounced in e.g. Parliament [paliamεnt] or official , and the unsystematic occasional women [wumεn]. Another example is country /kauntri/, which can be traced to ex-president Rawlings – he speaks LAFA, and established this pronunciation of the word, which is only used by younger speakers.