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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.

lunes, 14 de abril de 2014

GHOTI

Ghoti.
"Ghoti" is an alternate spelling for the word "fish". Thus, "ghoti" is pronounced /fish/, if you consider the following quirks of the English language:
Pronounce "gh" /f/ as in "tough" /taff/.
Pronounce "o" /i/ as in "women" /wimen/.
Pronounce "ti" /sh/ as in "nation" /nayshon/.
The word shall NEVER, no matter the occasion, be pronounced as /goaty/ or anything similar, but solely and merely as /fish/.