Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 18, 2006, 13:46 |
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>One thing that I only became aware of after reading JC Wells' book is
>that there are several sounds I had thought of as foreign, non-English
>sounds, that actually occur in my own everyday variety of English!
(...)
>Anyone else had an experience like this?
>--
>Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Well, nothing L1-shattering, but from time to time I've realized that I've
been completely mispronouncing various English words ... eg. <demon> with
/i/, <devil> with /E/ and not the other way 'round. Or German-inspired /x/'s
in words like <lichen>. Also several more obvious spelling pronounciations,
like /'tS&r&kt@r/.
John Vertical
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