Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2002, 12:05 |
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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