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R H Draney    902557 Mon, 10 Nov 08 12:03 AM

mm filted:
"The only time I have ever heard (or pronounced it) it is in the Scottish song "The Bonny Lass o' Fyvie" (generally around verse 6)."

"Of course now I can't stop saying hautboy in my head. I wonder how long before I blurt it out!"

Let's hope the next Leap swiss-cheeses your memory..r

"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
mm    902558 Mon, 10 Nov 08 03:49 AM

"mm filted:"

"Of course now I can't stop saying hautboy in my head. I wonder how long before I blurt it out!"

"Let's hope the next Leap swiss-cheeses your memory..r"

About what?
mm
R H Draney    902573 Mon, 10 Nov 08 05:49 AM

mm filted:
"mm filted: Let's hope the next Leap swiss-cheeses your memory..r"

"About what?"

Ziggy's still working on that..r

"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
Amethyst Deceiver  , 1 yr 13 days ago

In article
"Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter will sound exactly the same. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com"

Well, duh.

Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary
John Holmes    651183 Mon, 10 Nov 08 10:57 AM

"Peter Groves filted:"

"If you utter a fully released /d/ in "handbag" (hand-bag) ... this doesn't quite explain why they say "fore-head" for /forrid/."

"I was with you (more or less) until you hit "falcon", and I don't think it's from unfamiliarity; most of us may not raise them, but the birds themselves are in plentiful supply around these parts.."

The most familiar falcon to most of Peter's students would be a Ford model, and it has always been pronounced fal-con (or foul can, according to some).
"What do your students do with "clapboard"?...r"

They would be very unlikely to ever see the word.

Regards
John
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Charles A Lieberman    651190 Mon, 10 Nov 08 07:07 PM

Peter Groves Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:44:19 GMT
> Daniel Jones' EPD,
"which describes a pre-war kind of RP, gives the pronunciations /f(OR)lk@n/ (I'm using (OR) for the vowel of "fall") and /fOLlk@n/ (as in "folly") and notes that /f(OR)k@n/ (without the /l/) "is the usual pronunciation among those who practise the sport of falconry"."

What's the archipelago near the Argentinean coast (if it isn't /ma:lvIna:s/)?
I read of falcons before I saw them, so I go by the spelling pronunciation /f&lk@n/. I say John Woods's character's name from "WarGames" the same way.

Charles A. Lieberman > "The explanation is extremely simple. Brooklyn, New York, USA > It doesn't happen."

R H Draney    651205 Tue, 11 Nov 08 12:11 AM

Charles A Lieberman filted:
"which describes a pre-war kind of RP, gives the pronunciations ... usual pronunciation among those who practise the sport of falconry"."

"I read of falcons before I saw them, so I go by the spelling pronunciation /f&lk@n/. I say John Woods's character's name from "WarGames" the same way."

If you need a pronunciation authority, try this:

..r

"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
Anonymous    651207 Tue, 11 Nov 08 09:09 AM

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