anise

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:57 AM -0400 8/18/08, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>She's using the standard British pronunciation,

That's surprising to me (not that R.R. used it, but that it's the
standard British pronunciation).

>  but 'aniseed' is pronounced
>the same as in AmE.
>
>Similarly the Frenchified pronunciation of 'endive' is the usual BrE
>pronunciation (when they're not calling it 'chicory').

I'll bet it gets primary stress, though, like "ballet" and "garage",
although in those cases AmE keeps the French stress, while "endive"
is wholly domesticated (even in "Belgian endive", which is what I
grew up hearing).  More recently, while we're in the family, I've
heard many variations on "radicchio", although [r@'dikio] is pretty
easy to say if you don't worry about long consonants and
quality-preserving unstressed vowels.  I guess it's just that
ever-problematic "chi" = [ki] correspondence.

LH

>
>--On Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:06 am -0400 Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>wrote:
>
>>A couple of days ago on the Food Network, Rachael Ray, more than once,
>>pronounced "anise" as [@ 'nis], a pronunciation registered in none of the
>>several English dictionaries at hand.
>>
>>At first I supposed it was just a pretentious faux-French affection, as I
>>used to assume "endive" as ['an div] is--though that one is in the
>>dictionaries, and it does mimic the actual French pronunciation.  But
>>maybe [@ 'nis] exemplifies the "Uranus" ['jUr @ n at s] syndrome--an attempt
>>to keep low-minded liteners from thinking about anuses?
>>
>>--Charlie
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