Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 14:42 |
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Roger Mills wrote:
> At
> least British and SA tend to be pronounced very much fronted, with
> considerably more muscular tension of lips/tongue etc.
Hence the joke about the fellow who's asked if he's British, and replies
in a parody of Conservative RP: "My good man, if I were any more British,
I couldn't talk at all!" Meaning presumably that the tension would be
so great as to make speech impossible.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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