Re: Not *that* vowel again! (was: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos...)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 24, 2000, 5:56 |
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:38:33 -0500 nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...>
writes:
> I would definitely characterize it as /e@/. And let me just put in
> that
> I think it's the ugliest sound...My last name, which I pronounce
> /pErIn/, almost everyone I know pronounces as /pe@rIn/, and if I say
> something to them about it, they (almost) without fail completely
> fail
> to recognize a difference. aargh!! (BTW, this is in the "NYC Metro
> Area" read: SW CT)
>
> Nicole
.
"Perrin"? It looks definitely like the {e} is an /E/ to me....the {rr}
makes it a "short" vowel. So don't worry about it if you ever meet me in
person, i have enough trouble pronouncing my own lastname, but other
people's usually come out allright. :-)
-Stephen (Steg)
"i'm blue, if i was green i would die..."