Re: English spelling reform

--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote: >
Adrian Morgan scripsit:
>
> > There are any number of words that are reduced in
> practically all
> > speech but which may preserve an unreduced vowel
> under special
> > circumstances, e.g. possibly when sung.
>
> Sung English is an interesting dialect with its own
> intense phonological
> peculiarities.  For example, I say "glorious" as
> [glOr\i@s], with three
> syllables, but make it [glOr\jOs] with only two when
> singing.
> Once in Salt Lake City I heard the Mormon Tabernacle
> Choir rehearsing --
> quite an experience -- and the choir director was
> making precisely this
> point, at which time I realized that I had absorbed
> that rule myself
> without ever being taught it.
>
my old singing teacher once told me that to sing
clearly i had to adopt the pronunciation of an italian
tenor living in the bronx. it felt a bit odd, but
certainly gave better resonance . . .

bn

=====
bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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