Re: OT: My wedding pictures
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 1:08 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>"My dad is a drunk and my mother a whore, no wonder we're so devastatingly "poor"
>
> This actually rhymes in some varieties of American English, those that
>make the keywords [hu@\r] and [pu\@r]. The spelling pronunciation [hOr\]
>is more normal for the former, however. Some writers use the spelling
>"hoor" to represent dialects that use [hu\r] -- usually stigmatized ones,
>though an English professor of mine said it.
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>
In some varieties of English which have been influenced by southern
British English, they rhyme as well, because /U@/ merged with /O:/
(sometimes in more limited contexts then others; it rarely happened
after /j/ IMD). If I were to read a word spelt 'hoor', I would interpret
it as homophonous with 'whore' and rhyming with 'poor', 'door', 'floor',
'snore', 'four'/'for' and 'lore'/'law'.
Tristan.
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