Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 4:08 |
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On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:33, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:39:56 +0100 Ian Spackman
> <ianspackman@...> writes:
> >
> > The really odd word is Dvorak. It is the only word in the language
> > which
> > begins with dv or anything remotely like it, but it has never felt
> > particularly foreign to me, and nor have I noticed much difficulty
> > pronouncing it from English speakers (even those that find intitial
> > ts
> > difficult).
>
> well, not many english speakers find initial [dZ] difficult, and it's [d]
> + a voiced fricative, too.
No, it's an affricative, which is not exactly the same. English speakers
would recognise /dv/ as being composed of [d]+[v], but fewer would
recognise /dZ/ as being [d]+[Z]. I don't know how you pronouce it, but
/dv/ is comparable to /sp/, but /dZ/ is comparable to /t/.
If we're after similarities, I would look at 'dwarf'. (Evil word, that.
I pronounce it /d@"wo:f/, but I pronounce Dvorak /d@"vo:r&k/...
phonetically, the /@/ may disappear.)
--
Tristan.
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