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Pondian difference? Here SFAIK it's "gefilte fish" and I've always heard that second syllable like "fill". Same pronunciation. Spelling seems to vary. In my recipe book the u has a diaresis. ^ Actually, it has an umlaut
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Thus spake Raymond S. Wise: I would not expect RP speakers to pronounce "Oprah" ... written form, rather than adapting from the spoken American form. Why do you expect that? The closest word we have I "opera", and only the
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Do you know roughly when this sound change is supposed to have happened? Not off the top of my head, but my guess is early post-Shakespeare. Perhaps earlier than that. The nature of ... /rOl/, became /rOUl/ - which is essentially the same as the
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jonathan jordan
6 yr 50 days ago
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The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" ... interpret the ad-hoc phonetic spelling "cholgosh" - /tSolgAS/, I suppose. If the "cot" vowel was intended in the first syllable, then I don't see any
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Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" ... of the name of President McKinley's assassin: "Leon Czolgosz (cholgosh)." The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" is the cast recording
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Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" represented /A/ I think that's the vowel it's intended to represent, ... America,* Ramsey used a phonetic spelling to represent the pronunciation of the name of President
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Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" represented /A/ I think that's the vowel it's intended to represent, anyway. The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press reprinted a review from the Seattle Times written by Bruce
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The article in question, at http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html says, "There are four Standard pronunciations of xenophobia: ZEN-o-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, ZEEN-o-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, ZEN-uh-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, or ZEEN-uh-*FO*-bee-(y)uh. " I take that
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jonathan jordan
6 yr 59 days ago
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People who use terms like "CINC", "cot/father vowel", "ah pronunciation" ... a place where the terms are thoroughly defined and explained. Wasn't there some reference to something like that? Of course it would be
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bob cunningham
6 yr 84 days ago
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Has this changed over my lifetime? Id est, have dic'ers merely thrown in the towel, recognizing the frustrating tendency of the masses to "reek" all over the place? Or has it always been this way? It has 'always' been /ri:k/,
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