Mispronunciation

[Tom Zurinskas]

>Come on, you-all! It's at least one dialect of English in which the
>shift of "ash" to [ej] in the environment before /n/ or /N/ -
>depending upon whether one considers /N/ to be underlying or derived -
>is quite regular. An example is David Chappelle's pronunciation of T.
>rex as "tyRAYnnosaurus rex." Perhaps Ms. Morales is a speaker of one
>such dialect. :-)
>
>-Wilson

Sure.  I assume ej is long a as in "danger".  In fact, in m-w.com the "a" in
"danger" and "dangle" are spoken the same (long a) by the speakers, although
the notation has "dangle" with a short a.  For USA accent that shift is
present alot and should be recognized in the notation.  I've never heard
long a in T-rex before.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
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>Come on, you-all! It's at least one dialect of English in which the
>shift of "ash" to [ej] in the environment before /n/ or /N/ -
>depending upon whether one considers /N/ to be underlying or derived -
>is quite regular. An example is David Chappelle's pronunciation of T.
>rex as "tyRAYnnosaurus rex." Perhaps Ms. Morales is a speaker of one
>such dialect. :-)
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 12/12/06, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> > >Natalie Morales on NBC's Today reported on a recent article in the
>"Annals of
> > >Neurology." [ae]>[ej] in "annals" (ae=ash)
> > >
> > >"Uranus" is in the middle of a fight between prudish and bold
> > >pronunciations--the OED listing the prudish pronunciation first: stress
>on the
> > >first syllable and reduction of the [ej] vowel to a schwa.
> > >
> > >Is 'annals' so similar to 'anal' that the [ae] doesn't occur to a
> > >first-time or
> > >nervous reader? It seems so many other forms would work better on
> > >analogy with
> > >the spelling of other pre-'nn' A's. cf channel, flannel, annual,
>annotate,
> > >canned, planner etc.
> > >
> > >Is this some sort of forbidden-fruit/Freudian slip that makes annals so
> > >resistant to these analogies?
> > >
> > >
> > Maybe just infection by familiarity, the other side of the taboo
> > avoidance coin. "annal(s)" looks like "anal", which is a more
> > salient word and can't resist the gravitational pull of the latter
> > (does "Uranus" have a lot of gravity?). That would, I suppose, be a
> > kind of Freudian slip--no temptation to do the same with "channel",
> > "flannel", and the others, which in any case have the -el and so are
> > orthographically quite distinct from "anal", or "canal", which is
> > orthographically close but phonetically entirely distinct.
> > "Annal(s)" is just close enough phonetically, besides the fact that
> > maintaining or poring through all those persnickety records is, well,
> > kinda anal. (I'm sure those "Annalistes", the French historians who
> > base their work on minute inspection of, say, the diaries of 18th
> > century rural baptism records and death certificates, are more than
> > used to puns based on the connection.)
> >
> > LH
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