Q: describing how one reads text

[Tom Zurinskas]

> P.S. The OED actually indicates a different
> pronunciation choice, /baustro'fid at n/. (I don't
> see /bau'strOpdIn/, which I assume is what the
> "bough-STROP-din" above corresponds to.)

As I heard it in thefreedictionary.com for UK version of "boustrophedon"

the /bau is "bow" ~bou meaning front of a ship.  That would be "ou" for commonest English tradspeleeng of that sound.  I assume /au/ is German tradspeleeng for that sound.

the STROP was meant to have the "ah" vowel,  With headphones on it sounds more like STRUP.

the "he" is dropped, and the final syllable is "din" ~din.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com



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> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:25:27 -0400
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Q: describing how one reads text
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> At 1:52 PM +0000 6/7/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>>boustrophedon
>>
>>~buestruffeedin (boo-struh-FEED-in) USA
>>~boustrraapdin (bough-STROP-din) UK
>>
>>Interestingly big accent difference according to
>>the speakers in thefreedictionary.com
>>
>>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>>see truespel.com
>>
>
> Hmmm. I guess I've always used a spelling
> pronunciation myself, one distinct from both of
> those, having only seen the word in print:
> /bu'straf at dan/, with primary stress on the
> antepenult and secondary stress on the final
> syllable. (I mostly pronounce the word in
> connection with my Words class, in discussing
> cognate relations among words and languages.)
>
> LH
>
> P.S. The OED actually indicates a different
> pronunciation choice, /baustro'fid at n/. (I don't
> see /bau'strOpdIn/, which I assume is what the
> "bough-STROP-din" above corresponds to.)
>
>>
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>>> Poster: "Joel S. Berson"
>>> Subject: Re: Q: describing how one reads text
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>>> At 6/7/2009 09:28 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>>>>boustrophedon
>>>
>>> That's the word I was looking for (and due to not remembering it well
>>> enough, did not find it in the OED) for text that's "(Written)
>>> alternately from right to left and from left to right, like the
>>> course of the plough in successive furrows." But I am looking (also)
>>> for a word -- if one exists -- to describe text that's written always
>>> in the same direction on successive lines.
>>>
>>> (And in passing, would "boustrophedon" apply also to text written
>>> vertically, if lines were written alternately from top to bottom and
>>> bottom to top?)
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
>>>>Quoting "Joel S. Berson" :
>>>>
>>>>>Is there a word to describe how one's eye moves when reading
>>>>>(Occidental) text -- horizontally along the line, then down one line
>>>>>and back to the starting edge?
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a very faint recollection of a word that applies to text where
>>>>>one went one line down but continued reading from the edge that was
>>>>>the end of the preceding line (that is, left to right, then right to
>>>>>left, etc.) -- but it's so faint that all I seem to remember is that
>>>>>it began with a "b".
>>>>>
>>>>>Joel
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