Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, jogloran wrote:

> Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:
>
> > I take it you mean the one in NSW ;P (Apparently you can tell the
> > difference b/n /nju:kA:s@l/ in NSW and /nju:k{s@l/ in Vic by the
> way the
> > locals pronounce the towns.
>
> Which is peculiar because I don't know of any Australian accent that
> pronounces castle as /k{s@l/... Maybe it was done on purpose for a
> similar reason to the Newark /'nur=k/ Newark /nu'Ark/ thing?
'Castle' is pronounced both /k{s@l/ and /kA:s@l/ in Melbourne, although
the movie is nine times out of ten pronounced /D@ kA:s@l/ even by those
who say /k{s@l/ normally. Myself, I started off saying /k{s@l/ and
/kA:s@l/ sounded wrong, now, they both do. I blame my school.

Tristan