Re: CHAT: IPA Question

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> So, for your amusement, here is "Why Some Songs Cannot Be Sung In A
> Brooklyn Accent".
Similarly, the nursery rhyme about Miss Muffett doesn't work in a Scots/
Canadian/Fuluffya accent:

        Little Miss Muffet
        Sat on a tuffet
        Eating her curds and whey;
        Along came a spider /sp@i4r\=/
        And sat down beside her /bisai4r\=/
        And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Of course, it doesn't help that N.A. calls curds and whey "cottage cheese"
nowadays (I don't know about Scotland).

The Fuluffyan's Lament:  "I went to Baltimore, I went in a restaurant
and ordered a steak, and they served me a porterhouse!"

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John Cowan                              jcowan@reutershealth.com
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              http://www.reutershealth.com
Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory
that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia.
        --blurb for _Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi_

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