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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Paul Baronowsky"><span name="Mark Brooks">Mark Brooks</span> <span><<a href="mailto:marcosarroyos@sbcglobal.net">marcosarroyos@sbcglobal.net</a>></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </font></div>
<font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2013.04.17 (01) [EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ron asked: "<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I wonder why this is so and how far spread this pronunciation is within the English- and Scots-speaking world."</span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am not familiar with that pronunciation at all. Around these parts it's sans glottal stop. I also believe the vowel in the second syllable is [a] in Texas. </font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mark Brooks</font></span></div>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Pat Barrett">Pat Barrett</span> <span><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I never thought about it, but I definitely say be-ond with no y sound. I’ll have to start noticing that one. I also have a schwa for the first vowel of “mistake”.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pat Barret – living in AZ since 1951 (explains a lot) but started out in Ohio.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2013.04.17 (01) [EN]</font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
</div></div></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><div><font color="#351c75" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>What seems like a large percentage of American English speakers pronounces the word "beyond" like "be-ond" ([biˈʔɔnd], instead of like [biˈjɔnd]).</em></font></div>
</blockquote><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello Ron and Laaglanders</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We see the “be-ond” as peculiar to American speakers (mainly news media) and it is not used that way in Australia. The emphasis on the “ond” part of the word is also louder spoken and seems just so American. It is almost like 2 separate words.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Regards Ron</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Peter Snepvangers</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sydney Australia</font></div>
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