Re: Cloakroom
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 23:40 |
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> On 14/05/08 08:51:56, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > Is "draw" for "drawer" a standard Aussie spelling?
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> I doubt it. It's a spoken word though, almost never written down, so
> I've got no internalisation of its spelling. Easier to spell weird and
> wacky linguistics terms like "uvular" or "pharyngeal"...
Well, IML it's pronounced /drO`r\/, an exact rhyme with "door" (just
insert the extra /r\/!), so the spelling is more intuitive. But I do
hear /drO/ and even /drA/ (my pronuncation of "draw") from the
occasional non-rhotic countryman.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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