Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta that final b. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta that final b. Mostrar todas las entradas

martes, 23 de mayo de 2017

STILL, I SAY IT LIKE WOMBAT.

There are some pronunciations I take for granted, like /leftenant/ and /kernel/ and /Wooster/ and /Fanshaw/... or /nome/, or /Right/(the surname, as in Richard /Right/ or the /Right/ brothers)...
...but then there's the cluster of -mb words and the fact that the final B is supposed to be silent. I've got used to /coam/ and /claym/, as well as /coaming/ and /clayming/ (those four being verbs is here the keystone factor!) but the rest of those -mb nouns end for me in a loud and proud B sound: /woomB/, /toomB/, /bomB/, /lamB/, /limB/, and so on. And the /bomming/ pronunciation also ticks me off. /Bomming/ my ass. I mean, that's a b, for Jove's sake, not a second m! In contrast to this, even /Fanshaw/ seems far less counterintuitive. I say /bomBing/, with that -mb- as in /womBat/.
That's yet another quirk about my idiolect.