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

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Sunday, January 27, 2002, 12:05
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, jogloran wrote:
> > << > Which is kinda strange > since Aussies have a notorious habit if pronouncing every vowel as > schwa :) > So for a typical Australian, it would be pronounced as /r@m@mb@/ and > /d@c@mb@/ Hmmm.... so perhaps we should just forget writing vowels > altogether and stick with consonantal trigraphs.... ;) > >> > > Really? Well, actually, there are many Australian dialects, and you > don't really define "typical", but my speech, which would be > considered normal, generic news-reader-type English, would > have /r@mEmb@/ and /d@sEmb@/. I'm sure that I would get laughed at if > I pronounced those two words with /@/ instead of /E/... some of them > might even think I was trying to make fun of New Zealanders :P
I agree. Never heard /r@m@mb@/. Most definately /r@mEmb@/. And it rhymes with December, too. Oh, and what's 'generic news-reader-type English? Radio National has, in the morning, that Australian version of RP (Modified Australian, I think), JJJ has, at times, an Irish one (I think). Commercial radio stations (not that I listen to commercial radio...) have some readers saying /grA:f/ and /k@mA:nd/, others have /gr{f/ and /k@m{:nd/ (if you care, I use the /{/-form most times except when in -graph (i.e. telegraph, paragraph), which is /A:/). Tristan