Some TV dialect trends

[Scot LaFaive]

>These phoneme could be eliminated from USA English if the trend continues.

Oh, the humanity!

Scot


On 12/31/08, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dialect observations of 2008 for USA accent as spoken by TV media
> professionals.
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> The sound "awe" ~au in words is increasingly being replaced by the sound
> "ah" ~aa.  These phoneme could be eliminated from USA English if the trend
> continues.
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> The letter "s" denoting plurals is increasingly being spelnountsd as "s"
> instead of "z".
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> The "tion" ending is mostly pronounced ~shin or ~shoon (short oo) instead
> of ~shun.
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> The "e" in words starting with "ex" is mostly pronounced ~ex instead of
> ~ix.
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> The word "we'll" is often pronounced "will" ~wil instead of ~weel.
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> The word "will" is often pronounced "wool" ~wool., and "children"
> ~chooldrin.
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> The word "cloudy" ~kloudee is sometimes spoken as "cloddy" ~klaadee.
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> The replacement of "for" ~for by "fur" ~fer is still pretty typical.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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