anise

[Lynne Murphy]

Maybe we should interpret 'standard' in a non-technical way in my claim
below, but I've only heard it as "a NIECE" in the southeastern BrE that I
hear, and have been mocked (a little) for saying something that sounds more
like "anus".

Lynne



--On Monday, August 18, 2008 7:42 am -0400 Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
wrote:

> The OED records only the one pronunciation--with the first syllable
> stressed!
>
> --Charlie
> _____________________________________________________________
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:57:48 -0400
>> From: Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
>> Subject: Re: anise
>>
>> She's using 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').
>>
>> Lynne
>
>>
>> --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
>>> _____________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr M Lynne Murphy
>> Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
>> Arts B135
>> University of Sussex
>> Brighton BN1 9QN
>>
>> phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
>> http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
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Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
Arts B135
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

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