cot/caught/Don/Dawn

[Matthew Gordon]

Not to mention that by spelling their name 'Beatles' rather than 'Beetles'
they're promoting the dropping of a phoneme right out of the language. When
will people wake up and flag the problems created by this speech impediment
known as the Great Vowel Shift?????


On 7/2/08 10:00 PM, "David Donnell" <daviddonnell at NYC.RR.COM> wrote:

> Yes. And what about those disgusting Beatles.
> What they do can't even be called music. There's
> no melody to it. It's just a bunch of screaming
> over raucous rhythms. Not to mention they all
> need haircuts.
>
>> To me "awe-dropping" is a recent phenomenon and
>> the worst thing to happen to English
>> pronunciation in my lifetime.  I find no good in
>> it.  Anyone in a teaching position should flag
>> the problems it creates.  It's like a speech
>> impediment.  People are dropping a phoneme right
>> out of our language.
>>
>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus
>> "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.
>>
>>>  Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:18:20 -0700
>>>  From: zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
>>>  Subject: Re: cot/caught/Don/Dawn
>>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>>  Sender: American Dialect Society
>>>  Poster: "Arnold M. Zwicky"
>>>  Subject: Re: cot/caught/Don/Dawn
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>>>  On Jul 2, 2008, at 6:59 AM, Rebecca Shapiro wrote:
>>>
>>>>  One reason I have been happy to move back to the East Coast (New
>>>>  Jersey--and
>>>>  absolutely no irony intended) is that I have fewer instances of
>>>>  misunderstanding or being misunderstood...
>>>
>>>  we went through this topic at some length back in december 2007, in a
>>>  thread that started with occurrences of "sot after" for "sought
>>>  after" (in print as well as speech) and moved through various
>>>  entertaining examples, including "George Bernard Shah" in print.
>>>
>>>  you can find the thread in the archives by searching on the subject "a
>>>  home for drinkers".
>>>
>>>  arnold
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