Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2002, 22:13 |
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At 22:30 2002-01-27 +1100, John-Emmanuel wrote:
>They don't sound exactly the same for me either.... 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.... ;)
IF Aussies have a reputation for pronouncing every vowel as schwa it is
probably due to the fact that unlike most British and American accents
Aussie accents usually have only one unstressed vowel quality [@], so that
_chatted_ and _chattered_ both sound the same, inlike the situation in
RP. Thus sayeth the reference work.
/BP 8^)>
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