Sounds fascinating: further observations on English phonetics and phonology
"How do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too! How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can...
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| Summary: | "How do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too! How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can Wesley's hymns tell us about sound change in English? How do people pronounce Wrocław in Poland? How can anyone manage to say Gdynia as just two syllables? Why is the village of Frith in the island of Montserrat usually pronounced as if spelt Frits? What embarrassing faux pas in English did a Russian conglomerate make? Should I bild a cubbard instead of building a cupboard? How should we capitalize an exclamation mark, and why might we need to? What's a depressor consonant? As a finale, the author writes a letter to his 16-year-old self." |
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Contents
Preface page xi
PART I WORDS, NAMES, PEOPLE, AND PLACES 1
1 Unusual Words 3
1.1 Ask Your Gardener 3
1.2 Zhoosh It Up 3
1.3 Speleothems 4
1.4 Netsuke 5
1.5 Abseiling 7
1.6 Mayoral Elections 8
1.7 Keirin 9
1.8 Biopic 10
2 Food and Drink Words 11
2.1 Flummery 11
2.2 Concho logy 11
2.3 Kumquat 12
2.4 Lychee 13
2.5 Physalis 15
3 Interesting Words 16
3.1 Obstruent 16
3.2 Rowlocking Fun 16
3.3 Jewellery, Jewelry 17
3.4 Synod 17
3.5 Algebraic Ordinals 18
3.6 Remuneration and Anemones 18
3.7 Sojourn 19
3.8 Seismic 19
3.9 Mandr agora 20
3.10 Quasi- 20
3.11 Allegedly Aged 21
3.12 Than 22
3.13 Ha’p’orth 23
3.14 Diamond 24
3.15 Epergne 25
V
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3.16 Antimony 25
3.17 Canine 27
3.18 Met a What? 27
3.19 Stress Changes 28
3.20 Sainthood 29
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4 Names 31
4.1 Israel 31
4.2 Laocoon 31
4.3 Bombardier 32
4.4 Ulysses 33
4.5 Mysterious Derived Forms 34
5 People 36
5.1 Boris and His Great-Grandfather 36
5.2 Poets and Archangels 36
5.3 Joe Me-What? 37
5.4 Eugenie 38
5.5 An Archiépiscopal Mnemonic 38
5.6 Coetzee 39
5.7 Breughel 40
5.8 Kim Jong-Un 40
5.9 Voldemort 41
6 Places 43
6.1 Liverpool Suburbs 43
6.2 An Unwritten Possessive 43
6.3 Pontcysyllte 44
6.4 Bessacarr 45
6.5 Slaugham 45
6.6 Amos Grove 46
6.7 Caol 46
6.8 English Places 46
6.9 Where Was That Again? 48
6.10 Penge 49
6.11 Machynlleth 50
6.12 Acres 50
6.13 Beguildy 51
7 Abroad 52
7.1 Sichuan 52
7.2 L’Aquila 52
7.3 Rock Law 53
7.4 Duisburg 53
8 Home from Abroad 55
8.1 Agrément 55
8.2 An Italian Wine 55
Contents
vii
8.3 Ginkgo 56
8.4 Liebestod 57
8.5 Women’s Tennis 58
8.6 Raw Fish 59
8.7 A Heavenly Haven 60
8.8 Muchas Gratsias 60
8.9 The Letter z 60
8.10 Greek Politics 62
PART II SOUNDS AND LETTERS 63
9 Aliophones 65
9.1 Mysteries of Existence 65
9.2 ?^0 66
9.3 Is Our Cake Archaic? 66
9.4 Bedroom Wardrobe 67
9.5 Incomplete? Unreleased? 69
10 Phonetic Processes 73
10.1 But . 73
10.2 Spinach Sandwiches 73
10.3 Com Beef and Fry Rice 75
10.4 The Irish Sea 76
10.5 Aitches 77
10.6 Nonfinal Syllabic Consonants 77
10.7 Classical Elision 80
10.8 Initial Clusters 82
10.9 I Must Haplologize 83
11 Spelling 85
11.1 Phrasebooks 85
11.2 Spanish Phonetics for the Layman 86
11.3 Going Awry 87
11.4 Yoo-Hoo 88
11.5 Habeas Corpus 89
11.6 Curly or Kicking? 89
11.7 A Spelling-Based Faux Pas 90
11.8 Sh! 90
11.9 rh and rrh 91
11.10 Prusiking Around 92
11.11 The Digraph zh 93
11.12 Speech and Writing 94
11.13 Pronunciation and Spelling 95
11.14 Latin Double Velars 96
11.15 Bilding a Cubbard 97
11.16 Stenotypy 98
11.17 Final mb and mn 99
Contents
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11.18 Keeping Shtoom 100
11.19 Faustian 101
11.20 Digraphs in the Alphabet 102
11.21 English Spelling: What Should We Do? 103
11.22 Romeo Papa 104
11.23 Going Up 105
11.24 Family Words 106
11.25 Casing Clicks 107
12 Transcription 108
12.1 Explicitness in Transcription 108
12.2 Syllabic Plosives 109
12.3 happY Again 109
12.4 False Alarm 111
12.5 Ram’s Horn and Gamma 114
12.6 Constraints on Diacritics 115
12.7 Ban Legacy Fonts! 116
12.8 What [a] Means 118
12.9 Old Nonsense 120
PART III APPLYING PHONETICS 123
13 Classification 125
13.1 Fricative or Approximant? 125
13.2 VOT Is That? 126
13.3 Labiodentals 128
13.4 Unreleased 128
13.5 Implosives and Ejectives 130
13.6 Guttural 133
13.7 Trilling 134
13.8 Ooh! 135
13.9 A Multiplicity of Schwas 136
13.10 A Controlled Rolling Grunt 137
13.11 Initial q 138
13.12 The Palatal Nasal 139
13.13 Lateral Fricatives 140
13.14 Russian hc 142
13.15 Depressors 143
13.16 Gdynia Unmasked 145
13.17 Breathiness 147
13.18 Tap, Tap 147
13.19 Voicing Basics 149
14 EFL 151
14.1 Institutionalized Mispronunciations 151
14.2 English r 151
14.3 Ask Your Favour 152
14.4 Buttressing? 152
Contents
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14.5 English 3 153
14.6 French/English Interference 154
14.7 Southern Country 155
15 Accents 157
15.1 Shadow of Death 157
15.2 An Epiphany 157
15.3 Kerry, Carrie, and Carey 158
15.4 -ing 159
15.5 Fronted GOOSE 160
15.6 The Quality of SQUARE 161
15.7 The Poet and the Phonetician 162
15.8 Fair's Fur 163
15.9 Going on Twur 164
15.10 Double Affricates 164
15.11 EE RIP 165
15.12 A Four-Letter Word 168
15.13 Bajans 168
15.14 A Jamaican Allophone 169
15.15 He Nar Get None 170
15.16 Bawl and Ball 171
16 Lexical Stress 173
16.1 Prevalence 173
16.2 Europeans and Shakespeareans 174
16.3 Tautonyms 175
17 Connected Speech 177
17.1 Accenting the Unaccentable 177
17.2 Irritating Hamburgers 179
17.3 Impressed? 180
17.4 You Would Say That! 181
17.5 Open Wide, Please 182
18 Texts in Transcription 184
18.1 o bo:ltik kru:z 184
18.2 sedir) 'stres 184
18.3 in 5o pAb 186
18.4 kaenodor on olassko 187
18.5 strook 188
PART IV ROUNDUP 189
19 Rhetoric 191
19.1 Presentation Techniques 191
19.2 I Can’t Help It: It’s Just the Way I Am 192
19.3 Sound Advice 192
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20 Language Mosaic 194
20.1 Ndjuka 194
20.2 As We Were 194
20.3 Miscellanea 199
20.4 Vowel Colour 200
20.5 False Friends 201
20.6 Polish Spoken Here 202
21 Postscript 204
21.1 Skills Now Useless 204
21.2 Memory 205
21.3 Letter to My 16- Year-Old Self 206
Index of Words 208
General Index 210 |
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