Timeline for Why are "nation" and "national" pronounced differently?
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:17 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | firespeaker | Note that the alternation is not that the -ational [ˈæʃɨnəl] word is not the base form that the -ation [ˈeɪʃɨn] pronunciation would be conditioned by, but the other way around. So words like "ration", where there's an [æ] in the -ation form, would not be expected to have [ˈeɪʃɨn] pronunciations just because they also happen to have a form with -al. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 20:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 20:25 | history | answered | firespeaker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |