Hurricun 9

[2ffat]

I've been listening to the Governor of North Carolina talk about Hurricane Irene. She insists on calling it "hurricun." To me that grates on my nerves worse than fingers on a black board. Anybody else hear some mispronounced words that give them the "willies?"


James P. Cottingham
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[SantaMufasa]

And then there is the Giant Bull Elephant in the room between the Brits and the Yanks that no one seems to want to talk about: The typical British "behavyuh" of dropping the "r" sounds falling at the ends of words:[ul][li]"car" versus "cah"[/li][li]"either" versus "eithuh"[/li][li]"better" versus "bettuh".[/li][/ul]Not pronouncing the "r" seems like such a waste of a consonant. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[N1GHTEYES]

I'm not really clear on your meaning here Mr M. I think I do pronounce my terminal rs. However, I think that for unstressed syllables, er and uh have the same sound.

If I was explicitly distinguishing between two words with the same begining but where one ended in er and the other did not, I would stress the er - for example, when comparing the responsibilities of an employer Vs those of an employee. In that case the er would NOT sound like uh.

However, where the stress is on the first syllable e.g. "better", how would one distinguish between er and uh when they are unstressed syllables?

Being a Lancashire lad, I have a pathological loathing of waste in any form. So, Santa, if I can save my consonants, please let me know how.

Tony

 

[BadBigBen]

Stella,

I thought it was obvious, in that I was just having a bit of fun... ;-) I'll go stand in a corner now... (JK)

I would think that the Russian accent probably would overtone the NY accent... I tried to combine them above (misspelling so that you would read it that way)...

so haw about a butterbrot and some coffee...


Ben
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[Stella740pl]

BadBigBen,

It was obvious, and I did understand it was a joke, even though it took me a few minutes to read and comprehend.
My point was not that you misspelled the words in general, but that it does not sound the way you misspelled them (and more the way I misspelled them at the end of my post ;-)).

Russian doesn't have the 'th' sound, and it is difficult to master for most Russian-speaking people, so it often mispronouced as either 's' or 'z' - but it never sounds like 's' in the cases you mention. Say, 'path' or 'think' might sound as 'pass' or 'sink', but 'they', 'then', 'with' usually sound more like 'zey', 'zen', and 'wiz'. And yes, the rolling 'R'. Anything other than rolling is not really 'R' . Because it is a 'caR', for goodness sake, not 'caH' ;-).

 

[BadBigBen]

::Russian doesn't have the 'th' sound, and it is difficult to master for most Russian-speaking people, so it often mispronouced as either 's' or 'z'I know, it's the same for most Germans, but the worst is the letter 'V' - most Germans pronounce it like an 'F' or 'W', so vacuum cleaner becomes either "Wah-cuum cleaner" or "Fa-cuum cleaner"...

another example would be my Boss, when he pronounces English words, like header it becomes "heeder" or website becomes "webseed", and it makes me laugh out loud... ;-)

about the purposeful misspelling... I knew... ;-)

Ben
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