~chooldrin

[Paul Johnston]

Your old enemy, sound change again, in this case, assimilation to the
slightly lip-rounded qual.  ity of the preceding /tS/ (<ch> and the
velarity of the dark /l/ following the vowel in question.  This would
tend to back, and/or round the vowel, simply because we don't
pronounce sounds in isolation, but as part of a continuous string and
(regrettably for you, but inevitably) our speech organs cause each
sound to overlap into the preceding and subsequent sounds.

Paul Johnston
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:00 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> I've noticed a change in pronunciaiton of "children".  I would
> assume it to
> be ~childrin (~ denotes truespel notation).  But I'm hearing
> everywhere
> ~chooldrin (where ~ool is as in ~wool).
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> Not that I like it.  I prefer speech to be as close to tradspel
> (traditional
> spelling) as possible.  Wandering away from it violates the alphabetic
> principle.
>
> Tom Z
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