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Author: Marion Ingham
Email: eurotran at quik dot com
Date: 2007-10-11 15:46:16
Subject: Re: Proper pronunciation
Hi:
I think B-T's out of date. Though there is acrimonious disagreement over *long* æ, and I've been told my pronunciation of diphthongs is naive (I base it on the spellings, with the first part having the stress and the length if there is any--B-T's putting the accents on the second letter of a diphthong has been graphically superseded), I think the two examples you cite are based on late Middle and early Modern English, post-Great Vowel Shift.
M
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| Proper pronunciation |
Dave Dalton |
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2007-10-10 05:34:46 |
| Re: Proper pronunciation |
Marion Ingham |
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2007-10-11 15:46:16 |