Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A discourse on Phonemics (was:
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 4:10 |
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And Rosta scripsit:
> There's some confusion here. _wrath_ in RP is /rQT/, [RQT],
> rhymes with _cloth_ (as it does for you, but not, I think, GenAm),
Not for me either: [R{T], [klOT].
> and doesn't rhyme with _bath_, /bA:T/, [bAT], or _Plath_, as, I
> think, it does for most Americans.
[b{T], [pl{T].
> > Hence the joke: the girl says "Mr. Epstein is waxing wroth!",
> > and Groucho replies: "Tell Roth to wax Epstein for a while."
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> Does the joke work for most Americans? Or only Noo Yawkas?
I don't know: it depends on how GenAm speakers pronounce "Roth".
My dialect is a little East and a little old.
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