Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 13, 2003, 15:09 |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:10:24 +0100 Ian Spackman
<ianspackman@...> writes:
> On the other hand, in terms of sonority, I recall arguing with the
> teacher
> when I was 8 (if it wasn't 7) that "sail" has two syllables - the
> syllabic
> l was to my ear clearly more sonorous than the glide at the end of
> the
> diphthong (if only I had had the vocabulary to explain back then!).
> Ian
-
Me, seventh grade:
"But 'Charles' has two syllables!"
Teacher:
"No, it's just one."
Me:
"What do you mean? [tSa] [rl=z], two syllables."
Teacher:
"That just means you have a Brooklyn accent."
-Stephen (Steg)
...who also got in trouble in an earlier grade for pointing out that
"our" can be homophonous with both "hour" and "are/'R'", depending on
whether you're pronouncing it [&wr=] or [a:r].
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