[Ads-l] Heard on a re-run of The Office

[Wilson Gray]

> That's schwa in the second syllable of both, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's schwa in the second syllable of both, isn't it? I ask bc I
> pronounce  "con" [kɑn], or /kɔn/ archiphonemically. Most of its usage in my
> active and recognition vocabulary is not short for "confidence (man)" or
> "convict" or "contra", but for "convention", whether as a freestanding noun
> or as part of the name of a convention. See "Conomastics: The Naming of
> Science Fiction Conventions", Mandel 2010, ADS Annual Meeting, Baltimore.
> Slides in PDF:
> https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sites/www.ldc.upenn.edu/files/
> ads2010-conomastics.pdf
> Slides with notes:
> https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sites/www.ldc.upenn.edu/files/
> ads2010-conomastics-notes.pdf
>
>
> Mark /mɑrk/ = [mɑɹk]
>
> On Mar 4, 2018 4:14 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > _falcon_ pronounced by Rainn Wilson as the obsolescent "fall.con,"
> instead
> > of as the far more common "fal.con."
> >
> > I'm not alone!
> >
> > There's a discussion on WordReference:
> >
> > https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pronunciation-falcon.1660038/
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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