Re: Are/our/hour
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 5, 2000, 22:28 |
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James Campbell wrote:
> On the subject of are/our/hour:
>
> The angle from Dorset almost-RP-speakers would be:
> (/&/ = schwa)
> are our hour
>
> In careful speech/ /a:(r)/ /aU&(r)/ /aU&(r)/
> word stressed
>
> In normal conversation /a:(r)/ /a:(r)/ /aU&(r)/
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> There is crossover, but maybe not in the same way as for American dialects?
Actually, that fairly well maps the distribution of /au/ in my idiolect. I
think on occasion I get a slight intrusion of /U/ into <our>, but that's
pretty rare in normal conversation.
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