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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 14:53
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:24:19PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote: > > 'fOst@z. Ostr&lj&n f@ 'bij@. > > > > That's a funny pronunciation of 'Australian', looks decidedly American. > > And 'beer', too. > > Nah. The American pronunciation of "Australian" has a long A /ej/ in the > middle; it sounds to me like the Hollywood Australian accent replaces it > with the short A /&/.
Yeah, I know, but an initial /O/ like that? Once you've had that, the rest is unforgiveably american. /@str&ij@n/ :) (Because /j/ for /lj/ is looked down upon, I'd probably say /li/, actually.)
> As to "beer", in the rhotic American > dialects (which the vast majority are), it's /bI`r\/.
I meant it looked odd too. It looks as unamerican as unaustralian (the True Blue Australian Pronunciation would be [bI:@], with the [@] being rather minor and existing because it's got nothing after it, the poor isolated sound. In mid-sentence, it wouldn't exist). -- Tristan <kesuari@...> Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Snoopy

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