Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

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From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: Re: Re: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)


> My mate Alan Helsdon (local folk musician / composer) has a whole page
> devoted to limericks based on the strange pronunciations of Norfolk place
> names. Some are truly terrific! Go to:
> http://quanting.care4free.net/limerix.htm
YAEPT: Could someone provide a transcription of all those names?

> Mike
> > >Don't forget the wonderful personal and family name
> > >"Chalmondley" /tSVmli/, from which we deduce that in British
> > >English, the word "almond" is pronounced /Vm/
> > >
> >
> > That's Cholmondley
> >
> >
> > There was a young woman named Cholmondley
> > Who mused to herself rather glolmondley:
> > "Were it not my squint And my rubicund tint
> > I might be considered quite colmondley."
> >
> > from:
> > http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ad/LimericksDir/C.html
> >
> > and it doesn't beat Featherstonehaugh  /f&nSO:/
> >
> > David Barrow
>
>
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