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WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
freeman:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 13 Jul 2016, 16:54 ---Nah, Clinton tries to repeat it as 'broon', so ipa /brun/ or /bryn/, depending if there's an implicit umlaut. Brunhilde would start with one of those syllables too.
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I can't help it, I would like to pronounce Brun with straight /a/ like the a in "hard" pronounced in the stereotypical American accent. (I know some of you Anglos pronounce "hard" almost with o.) Damn your vowels are unstable.
--- Quote from: Tova on 14 Jul 2016, 01:08 ---What with attachments in QC and genetic material in Alice Grove, Jeph's mind has certainly been to some interesting places recently. :mrgreen:
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When you think of Jeph's mind, always remember the twitter account that Pintsize used to have. I mean some one had to look those pictures up.
He has been traveling with the missus though, so "bottled up pressures" shouldn't be a problem.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: blue5 on 14 Jul 2016, 04:00 ---Wait...if yellerbird had an account, would she swipe right?
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Alas, poor Yelling Bird. I knew him well, Brun.
Too well. :psyduck:
blue5:
Brun might be secretly just like Pintsize...or might outdo pintsize. We need Steve!
JimC:
On english pronunciation I came across this recently...
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/17/english-pronunciation-poem/
I've heard it said that:
Some of the english spelling peculiarities is because english pronunciation went through a major shift after spelling started to firm up. And:
American spelling is mainly down to one chap with some strange bees in his bonnet plus a number of archaisms.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: JimC on 14 Jul 2016, 06:29 ---Some of the english spelling peculiarities is because english pronunciation went through a major shift after spelling started to firm up.
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It's absolutely true. Two other major factors are:
1) English has a very complex vocabulary history, with not only major influences from languages like French, but also a strong historical linguistic divide between the ruling classes and the common people (this is basically why, for instance, unlike in most European languages, the names for types of meat and for the animals the meat comes from are completely different, e.g. mutton/sheep, cow/beef, pig/pork), which led to a crazy mix of words with inconsistent spelling based largely on the historical spelling of the words in parent languages.
2) Most early printers in England were immigrants (e.g. from the Netherlands), and in the pre-industrial world, without standardized nationwide spelling being a thing, they added their own layer of what they thought "looked/felt better" spelling-wise, contributing to the overall mess.
The fact that the United Kingdom reflects tradition of multiple nations probably influenced the development of standardized spelling too, but I'm unaware to what extent that had an impact.
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