Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."

R A Brown wrote:
> Joseph Fatula wrote:
>> R A Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Joseph Fatula wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joseph Fatula wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I'll give it a shot:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Let's choose to put half the shouting Cuban spider monkeys on
>>>>> Joy's wide garage instead of in your eighth hat.
>>>
>>>
>>> There's no /Z/ for those of us who have 'garage' rhyme with marriage
>>> & carriage.
>>
>> I don't believe I've ever heard this one.  Where do they pronounce
>> 'garage' to rhyme with 'marriage'?  And do they keep their carriages
>> in garages?
>
> A little island called Britain   ;)
>
> Actually /g@'rAZ/ is heard here also but IME /'g&rIdZ/ is far more
> common. The Welsh _garej_ ['garEdZ] is a borrowing from English. I
> believe the /'g&rIdZ/ pronunciation is common in some other anglophone
> countries.
>
> No, we don't keep carriages there; we've moved on a bit and keep cars
> (i.e. automobiles) in them or more often IME just junk  ;)
>
In this Britain you speak of, other than the lack of /Z/, does my
sentence contain all the other phonemes you use?  I'm actually surprised
that I never noticed this pronunciation before.  I've spent about a
month in England, out near Bristol, and somehow missed this word entirely.

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