George Bush Hooked on Phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en)

[Tom Zurinskas]

Basically, this notation is America's reaction to SAMPA.  The VOA uses the same notation as Pres. Bush does.  I have yet to find a name for it.  I guess "VOA-spell" is appropriate.  For "UN" I'd put stress on the last syllable, you-EN.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.






> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:41:31 -0500
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> George Bush Hooked on Phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en)
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> George W. Bush had no trouble naming names when he berated dictators =20
> in Burma, Iran and Cuba during his speech on Sept. 25 before the U.N. =20=
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> General Assembly, but when it came time to praise countries like =20
> Kyrgyzstan and Mauritania for making =93strides toward liberty,=94 the =20=
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> president needed help with his pronunciation.
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> In a copy of the president=92s speech that the White House released by =20=
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> mistake, and which appeared briefly on the United Nations web page, =20
> Mr. Bush=92s speechwriters provided the president with phonetic =20
> transcriptions of the hard words KEYRgeez-stan and moor-EH-tain-ee-a, =20=
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> along with cues to help him denounce Zimbabwe=92s Robert Mugabe (moo-=20
> GAHbee), and the Harare (hah-RAR-ray) government.
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> It=92s not unusual for public speakers to mark up their text with cues =20=
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> to aid their delivery. But our politicians are so convinced that the =20=
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> linguistic transformation of Eliza Doolittle from inarticulate flower =20=
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> girl to =93rain-in-Spain-falls-mainly-on-the-plain=94 socialite in =93My =
> =20
> Fair Lady=94 will help them in their own efforts to morph from prairie =20=
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> oysters (TERD blahsumz) into master orators, that they line the =20
> waiting rooms of the descendants of poor professor Higgins (EN-ree IG-=20=
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> inz), seeking dialect transplants that their health insurance still =20
> considers experimental.
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> Nor is it surprising that the president got help with his U.N. =20
> speech. Bush has a history of mangling his English. He trips over =20
> difficult names like Abu Ghraib, says OPEC at an APEC meeting, and =20
> coins new catch phrases like =93I=92m the decider.=94 ....
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